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Associate Professor of Nutrition and Epidemiology at the Harvard School of Public Health Frank B. Hu and Chief of Preventive Medicine at Brigham and Women’s Hospital Jo Ann Manson led a team of researchers investigating 120,000 participants for 12 to 18 years...
...Manson said she and her colleagues did not expect the findings...
...that day remain vivid for anyone who was or knew a high school student at the time. Attempts to identify the “cause” of the murders became a morbid national pastime, with the media and high profile Congress members simplistically blaming everyone from Marilyn Manson to the National Rifle Association for the boys’ lethal actions. Even Michael Moore’s wry and often insightful investigation of the tragedy, last year’s Oscar-winning documentary Bowling for Columbine, ultimately descended into a disappointingly reductionist argument which seemed to place personal blame...
...favorite bands shifting from bright to dark, or from abstract to political, other ways to read the rise of angry white rap; and there are, obviously, counterexamples. Marilyn Manson’s shock-rock, after all, peaked at about the same time as the internet boom. But Marilyn Manson is a countercultural figure, not a figure of the modern American Zeitgeist. Manson will be remembered as a diversion, but our memories of 2002 may well be soundtracked by Eminem, who tapped something in the national psyche and lay claim to the national tone...
...revenge for the robbery, Nash, with Holmes’ assistance (whether willing or not is left unclear), sends his men to the drug den on Wonderland and they create a grisly bloodbath rivaled only by the Manson Family murder...