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...pieces of misleading mail about the candidate's position on the flag flying above the state capitol. Both McCain and Bush ducked the issue, but the flyer said, "Of the major candidates, only George Bush has refused to call the Confederate flag a racist symbol." In a bit of payback last Saturday, McCain's camp decided to send copies of the flyer to African-Americans throughout Michigan. "We'll see if Bush can run as a Dixiecrat in Michigan and everywhere else," says McCain political director John Weaver...
Although West got the upper-hand in the first meeting, Monti will surely be looking for payback on Saturday night...
...PAYBACK TIME Thinking of going belly up? Better hurry up. The Senate passed a bill last week that will make it harder to file for bankruptcy. Lenders have groused that current law allows consumers, even those with the means to pay, to wipe out debt too easily. In the new law, which is expected to be signed in some form by the President, getting a clean slate will be more difficult, and payback schedules will be more common...
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...