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...question is, Who gets to fill it? As soon as word of the atrocity began leaking out of the building--and it was on local TV 28 minutes after the first shot was fired--ownership of the story of Eric Harris and Dylan Klebold was being fiercely contested. Were they natural-born killers? Or were they victims themselves--of bullying, of bad parenting, of mental illness? Were they sent by the devil, as some local Evangelical preachers argued? The killers had a version of their story too, which they told in the journals and videos they left behind. They believed...
...have to. I took a breath. It wasn’t enough. I took another one!Then I took off. I charged. If I slowed I would stop. I thought I heard Ezekiel, somewhere to my side, limping with doubt. But I kept to my stride. And soon he caught up.It wasn’t long before we fell into some sort of rhythm. By the time we’d passed those first few pews, we’d agreed on a kind of swaying tack that shuffled us across the wood. The shuffling became a skimming and that...
...volleyball, so I decided to try it out and play JV.”It quickly became clear, however, that Jones had more of a knack for spiking the ball than shooting it. Encouraged by his parents and coaches, the young player signed up for club volleyball and was soon noticed by college coaches. “I’d always wanted to play sports in college; I just realized that my chances were a lot better in volleyball than basketball,” Jones says.Like many kids on the West Coast, Jones set his sights on Stanford...
...Financial Stability Board is a huge step. Investment bankers and derivative traders are getting what’s coming in the form of regulated pay and bonuses. Hedge funds will have to disclose their leverage levels to regulators. But deep structural changes in other international financial institutions must occur soon. It’s great that the IMF received funds to aid struggling developing countries, but part of the reason those countries are in the position they’re in is because of IMF advice: The IMF must become more cautious, contextualist, and concerned with sustainability. The same goes...
...fitting setting for Kanye to pick up a brush and paint a portrait of Hilson as Cleopatra, which manages to look like neither. Needless to say, fine art isn’t the currency of a hip-hop video, and Kanye’s Da Vinci act soon ends. What follows is some semblance of plot. Kanye broods, raves, and rants about Hilson’s new boo (Ne-Yo) and finally engages said boyfriend in a deathmatch of sorts—a staring contest. It’s certainly an unexpected beef, and Kanye’s glare...