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...face that is seen, the story that gets told and all too often the act that gets copied by the next broken loner with a grudge. The day after the shooting, bomb scares and other threats closed schools in seven states. As the news cycle surrendered to round-the-clock coverage, finding meaning in the mayhem was a performance art: Dr. Phil was warning about the dangers of a violent popular culture before anyone knew which culture had produced this particular killer. Bill O'Reilly whacked "America haters" and knee-jerk gun controllers before declaring his support for more "sensible...
...police who came. It was Cho, back for another round, reloading his gun and firing another shot into the dead and wounded. He thinks he heard Cho reload three times, and at every shot he braced himself, thinking, "This one is for me." His mind wandered; he wondered what a gunshot wound feels like, how much it would hurt. He wondered if he would die slow or fast, and then he thought of his family. "I was terrified that my parents weren't going to be able to go on after I was gone." There was a student in front...
Antidrug warriors may argue that the research will lend the drugs an aura of respectability, prompting a new round of recreational use. That's possible, but today we have no priestly Leary figure spewing vertiginous pro-drug proclamations. Instead we have a Leary for a less naive age: Richard Doblin. Also a Harvard guy--his Ph.D. is in public policy--Doblin founded the Multidisciplinary Association for Psychedelic Studies (MAPS) in 1986 to help scientists get funding and approval to study the drugs. (Doblin, 53, says he was too shy for the '60s, but he was inspired by the work...
...program if he became P.M. "Happy to come on the date, the time and the hour," he said, adding, "there's only one precondition. All the questions are easy." Her on-air partner, Kyle Sandilands, who knows their audience, replied: "They're easy around here. Lowest common denominator radio round here, my friend...
...rampant critters nest under their homes, claw into their garbage and treat TV antenna towers as a ladder. "The airline is elegant and upscale, so why go with a Disneyesque marketing approach?" says Barry Avrich, filmmaker and president of Toronto ad agency Endeavour, who on a recent Porter round-trip was one of six passengers...