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...seeing The Matrix. The Paducah killings were supposed to have been triggered by The Basketball Diaries. Another movie is now raising questions in the Virginia Tech massacre - because the killer, Cho Seung-Hui, made a photo in which he looks fierce and holds a raised hammer, in a manner similar to a shot in Park Chan-Wook's 2003 film Oldboy. Both Cho and the film are originally from South Korea. Both have undergone Americanization: Cho by moving to the U.S. when he was a kid, Oldboy by getting remade as a Hollywood movie that, last I heard...
...faculty have an important stake in ensuring that undergraduate disciplinary matters are handled in a fair manner,” Losick said...
...paranoid schizophrenic. Brain injury in an otherwise healthy person can lead to similar violence. Damage to the frontal region of the brain, which regulates what psychologists call the observing ego, or the limbic region, which controls violence, reflection and defensive behavior, can shut down internal governors and trigger all manner of unregulated behavior. "Somebody who had damage to both regions would be a bad player for sure," says forensic psychiatrist Neil Kaye, a faculty member at Jefferson Medical College in Philadelphia...
...passionate about something more significant in the grand scheme of things.And to tell you the truth, it wasn’t that hard.On a personal level, sports have provided stability in my life and have given me an outlet for dealing with frustration and stress in a healthy manner. Growing up, there was no better way to release some pent-up anger than by throwing down a tomahawk jam on the hoop in my backyard (even if I had to lower the hoop a few feet).Now that I’m at Harvard, where students face enormous pressure...
...years into his papacy, Benedict XVI may be about to reclaim his reputation as a no-holds-barred traditionalist. Thanks to Benedict's thoughtful manner, Church progressives had believed that the man who was once the hard-line Cardinal Joseph Ratzinger would cut some slack on areas of doctrinal contention - using his intellectual heft and traditional credentials as necessary cover. But as Benedict turns 80 on April 16 and marks two years as Pope on April 19, the once hopeful progressives have all but given up their fantasy of Benedict the Reformer...