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...bright and positive member of the Institute community,” said Kirk D. Kolenbrander, vice president for Institute affairs. According to The Tech, MIT’s student newspaper, Barclay’s last communication was an away message that he had left on his AOL Instant Messenger account, which read, “I have to meet with some sketchy people I thought I’d never have to deal with ever again in east Cambridge.” Barclay’s mother, Susan Kayton, told the Globe that she thought that Barclay, whose body...
...generation ago, the social critic Christopher Lasch diagnosed narcissism as the signal disorder of contemporary American culture. The cult of celebrity, the marketing of instant gratification, skepticism toward moral codes and the politics of victimhood were signs of a society regressing toward the infant stage. You don't have to buy Freud's explanation or Lasch's indictment, however, to see an immediate danger in the way we examine the lives of mass killers. Earnestly and honestly, detectives and journalists dig up apparent clues and weave them into a sort of explanation. In the days after Columbine, for example, Harris...
...popped up on the campus police radar screen on Nov. 27, 2005, when a female student reported that Cho had made annoying contact with her through the phone and in person. While she declined to press charges, another student soon complained of his instant messages. After police investigated, an acquaintance alerted them that Cho might be suicidal. When police returned and questioned him further, they asked that he agree to see a counselor...
...have reportedly been tied to 16,000 weapons sold there in the last eight years. Cho's purchases had been legal; he had been under a court-ordered "temporary detainment order," a psychiatric evaluation, which is not the same as an involuntary commitment. Thus nothing showed up on the instant background check at the store. He just presented three forms of ID, including a Virginia driver's license, and paid $571 for the gun and a box of 50 9-mm rounds. Employees viewed Cho as "about as clean-cut a kid as you'd ever want to see," says...
...Markell said the salesman ran an instant background check through the Virginia State police computer system, which also checks federal records. He added that he and his salesmen look for odd behavior. "You can't believe how much we screen people," he said. "We look to see people that are coming in to buy guns. Somebody that ducks behind a stand and starts whispering to somebody else he's with, we're not likely to deal with...