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...secret self-portrait is a painting of a man standing alone upon a mountain peak. All others lie below him, dead or no longer able to climb...
...officers at ground zero say hindsight doesn't do them justice. "People who weren't there don't understand," Deputy Paul Smoker, the second officer on the scene, told the Denver Rocky Mountain News. "It was unbelievable craziness." Part of the problem may be that the SWAT team was facing the emerging new paradigm of American crime: the school massacre. Eric Harris and Dylan Klebold weren't bank robbers or hostage-takers; they wanted nothing except to kill, often and quickly, and they had the preparatory advantages of being insiders. Any of the hundreds of backpacks littering the hallways could...
...While we work our magic, the ropes guide the line back-and-forth. I begin to fantasize that our ordeal will culminate in a ride on Space Mountain, but I am sorely disappointed. Instead, our reward for successfully navigating the rat maze and completing our applications is a good old-fashioned strip search. At the very front of the line, a team of security guards is closely inspecting each auditioner. Apparently MTV is concerned that someone may try to beat some humility into Carson Daly's smug noggin...
...over in yelping heaps of skis and poles. Kearns, an elfin woman with twinkly eyes, smiles at the antics and pushes ahead into the thickening snow blurring the Adirondack wilderness ahead. She's leading her students on an overnight field trip to discover the beauty and history of this mountain range in upstate New York. Kearns is convinced that getting out into nature, "fondling nature," she calls it, will someday enable these kids to be better people...
...miles away, at the main staging area in Albania, Jackie, 16, and her brother, 14, wait to go back down the mountain. Dressed in army pants, a black jacket and a beret, she looks more like a cheerleader than a soldier. With a quick smile and long brown hair that she constantly flips over her shoulder, she says she was among the refugees who came through Kukes three weeks ago and, against her parents' wishes, joined the K.L.A. She had two weeks of training, and is now fighting at the front. "I fired a lot of rounds today. Of course...