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...there is no way of calculating how much of a role was played by propaganda and video games in Harris and Dylan Klebold's killing spree. Quake and its ilk may have helped desensitize a generation--but you're blasting cyborgs, not classmates, and you're certainly not constructing pipe bombs. Harris' online essay on how to make these devices suggests that he made most of his discoveries through trial and error, not on the Net. The computer age may be giving kids a new outlet for their dark fantasies, but that hardly means it is turning them into killers...
...were white as sheets," friends would later say. The tale the boys concocted--some highly unbelievable stuff about a gang attack, followed by only slightly more believable stuff about a joyride gone bad--had made the cops suspicious. Rustica would be the inauspicious conclusion to a 12-month robbery spree by two boys who were, everyone thought, model young citizens...
Elsewhere, people are raising the issue of racial hatred--as if the fact that the two boys supposedly targeted minorities during their shooting spree somehow makes it all more understandable. We should talk about the persistence of racism in America...
Security has been tightened from the River tothe Quad amid a spree of high-profile crimes...
REVOLVING CREDIT Credit-card companies have been going on a shopping spree lately--and you may get stuck with the bill. Industry leader Citibank just purchased 800,000 accounts from Mellon Bank, part of an industrywide consolidation that last year saw 20 million accounts worth an estimated $32 billion change hands. A new owner can jack up rates and fees when it buys your account, except in a few states that let you keep the old terms. So make sure you watch out for the fine print detailing any changes...