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...Holocaust studies, there is a school of thought that says to explain is to forgive. I won't go that far. But we must stop explaining killers on their terms. Minus the clear context of narcissism, the biographical details of these men can begin to look like a plausible chain of cause and effect--especially to other narcissists. And they don't need any more encouragement...
Wagamama’s opening comes on the heels of an influx of other large chain eateries. An International House of Pancakes outlet opened in November and the Mexican restaurant Qdoba opened last month...
...chain is known for its communal benches and the wireless system its waitstaff uses to relay orders to the kitchen...
...rampage as a failure of one of these abstract ideas leaves the impression of missing the essential element. As the days and weeks pass, numerous hypotheses will emerge trying to explain why a 23-year old, after shooting two people in a dormitory, would, two hours later, chain the doors of a hall, walk to the second floor, and systematically murder thirty people in four classrooms. Some accounts will conclude the rampage to be a failure of Virginia Tech’s policies to provide a correct response when a gunman is on campus. Others may describe the shootings...
...course there is no special merit in things like chain restaurants and local government, except that they are part of the fabric that binds Americans together. That should be enough to endear them to us. If not, what does a Harvard graduate working on Wall Street have in common with the schoolteachers and cops whose retirement funds she manages...