Word: grouping
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...their talents," says Curtis Cook, a parent at Phoenix's Desert Vista High School. Says New York City psychoanalyst Leon Hoffman: "All kids need to belong, and if they can't belong in a positive way at the school, they'll find a way to belong to a marginal group like a cult or a gang...
...work for a company larger than most nation-states, the girls were given a full schedule of speakers, activities and meetings--generally a more packed workday than I've ever had. First we took on an assignment to put together an actual printed magazine in three hours; my group had to photograph, report and write a story about the TIME art department. My reporting team, ages 9 and 10, was shockingly smart, culturally aware, energetic and uninhibited. By this I mean that when we went to interview a page designer about her job, the girls, poised for a lucrative future...
...Wars film. But basically it was very professional. At the end of the morning, as we were writing our story on the tale of the lonely designer, my boss, managing editor Walter Isaacson, walked by my office. "I just wanted to make sure my daughter wasn't in your group," he told me. "I didn't want you to teach her how to write." This is not what you want to hear from your boss. I told the girls he meant that because my style is so complex, it would be confusing to them. They weren't buying...
...much can be explained by the trench coats, not because they are long and black and what the kids call Gothic, but because they look alike; they conceal differences. People who are attracted to clans and cults seek to lose their individuality and discover power and pride in a group. As individuals, the killers, Eric Harris and Dylan Klebold, were vulnerable, taunted by the other tribes in school--the cliques, the athletes--as geeks and nerds. "He just put a gun to my head," a girl reported. "And he started laughing and saying it was all because people were mean...
...memory for tribal hatred: by now it must seem that hate, like other tribal features, is carried in the genes. Suburban tribes have to hone enmities on the spot, so they require immediate inducements. The killers must be perceived as weak and ridiculous on their own before they seek group protection and justice. The group's main reason for being becomes revenge...