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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...first lesson of Columbine is that "they" were not they. To understand Harris and Klebold, you have to learn to tell them apart. Harris was the extrovert: "He smoked, he drank, he dated. He got invited to parties. He got high," Cullen writes. An Army brat, shuttled from school to school, he had picked up the trick of being charming, but he also had a temper that flared when he didn't get his way. Klebold was physically more imposing--at 6 ft. 3 in., he was 6 in. taller--but he was less sure of himself...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Meaning Of Murder | 4/2/2009 | See Source »

...We’re not like other people,” Claire Stenwick (Julia Roberts) tearfully announces to Ray Koval (Clive Owen). “Only you could understand me.” No, these characters aren’t supernatural or extra-terrestrial; they’re spies for the CIA and MI-6, respectively—fed up with their empty lives of artifice and loneliness. After a one-night stand in Dubai and a week of lovemaking in Rome two years later, they decide that they belong together and hatch an escape plan. All they need...

Author: By Lauren S. Packard, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Duplicity | 4/2/2009 | See Source »

...Harvard your entire career,” Rojer says. “But at the same time, it lacks stability. Students are doing their theses, and that’s the culmination of your work; a visiting professor just isn’t going to be able to understand it in the same way someone who has been advising you for years will...

Author: By Erika P. Pierson, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Sketchy Future for VES | 4/2/2009 | See Source »

...understand that students are anxious because of Nancy leaving,” Garber says. “I don’t blame them...

Author: By Erika P. Pierson, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Sketchy Future for VES | 4/2/2009 | See Source »

...operating on a patient.” says one member of the VES faculty who asked not to be named. “For someone who is a real painter, it’s a very serious thing, it is a profession, and at most schools they seem to understand that except here...

Author: By Erika P. Pierson, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Sketchy Future for VES | 4/2/2009 | See Source »

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