Word: paybacks
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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This is not to say the humiliation Harris and Klebold felt was not a cause. Because they were steeped in violence and drained of mercy, they could accomplish everything at once: payback to those who hurt them, and glory, the creation of a cult, for all those who have suffered and been cast out. They wanted movies made of their story, which they had carefully laced with "a lot of foreshadowing and dramatic irony," as Harris put it. There was that poem he wrote, imagining himself as a bullet. "Directors will be fighting over this story," Klebold said...
...never underestimate a child's ability to master the Pokearcana required to accumulate such power: the ease with which they slip into cunning and thuggery can stun a mergers-and-acquisitions lawyer. Grownups aren't ready for their little innocents to be so precociously cutthroat. Is Pokemon payback for our get-rich-quick era--with our offspring led away like lemmings by Pied Poke-Pipers of greed? Or is there something inherent in childhood that Pokemania simply reflects...
...Green jumped out to an early 2-0 lead in last season's match-up, stunning Harvard en route to its 2-1 victory. The loss cost the Crimson the Ivy championship and left the players--both freshman and underclassmen alike--thirsting for payback...
...robber goes, the three roommates are more curious than angry, and are glad to hear that the police have arrested their chief suspect, Andre Stuckey, 20. Still, they wouldn't mind a little payback. As Rubin says, "I hope, by some twist of fate, that the robber who did this has to face the Fly-Bys in an intramural Ultimate competition. We'll take him down...
...immoral bordering on treasonous to raid the Social Security trust fund for other government purposes (though all that means is borrowing the money with interest), why is it not even controversial to raid general revenues to shore up Social Security (with no interest or even payback of principle...