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...like Cho. But the central role of narcissism plainly connects them. Only a narcissist could decide that his alienation should be underlined in the blood of strangers. The flamboyant nature of these crimes is like a neon sign pointing to the truth. Charles Whitman playing God in his Texas clock tower, James Huberty spraying lead in a California restaurant, Harris and Klebold in their theatrical trench coats--they're all stars in the cinema of their self-absorbed minds...
...face that is seen, the story that gets told and all too often the act that gets copied by the next broken loner with a grudge. The day after the shooting, bomb scares and other threats closed schools in seven states. As the news cycle surrendered to round-the-clock coverage, finding meaning in the mayhem was a performance art: Dr. Phil was warning about the dangers of a violent popular culture before anyone knew which culture had produced this particular killer. Bill O'Reilly whacked "America haters" and knee-jerk gun controllers before declaring his support for more "sensible...
...from the Ben & Jerry’s entrance to the counter where they were met by busy employees and volunteers. But as the day drew to a close, students descended on The Garage in ever larger numbers. “I checked it out around 4 o’clock around this afternoon and the line was at the door,” said Michael S. Dunn ’10. “I didn’t feel like sticking around.” This year face painting was added to the annual “free cone...
...remembered for is A Christmas Story, a warm and playful tale of the holiday-time highs and lows of a '40s-era boy intent on receiving an "official Red Ryder carbine-action, 200-shot, range-model air rifle." Clark, whose cult classic is now shown annually around the clock on TBS, was 67, and was killed, along with his son Ariel, 22, when a drunken driver struck his car head on on a Los Angeles highway...
...entry in the Guinness World Records to prove it. Snyder also had about this amount of time to dwell on his victory in the final round of the World Sudoku Championship, held two weeks ago in Prague. With just over a minute left on the clock, Snyder sat back while his contenders struggled away, and mused, “Wow, I’ve just won the championship.” The puzzles Snyder faces aren’t all the one-minute-in-heaven 9x9 squares students toy with in boring lectures. At the World Championship, Snyder explains, there...