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...took her hip-hop leanings as a decisive divergence from my way of life. Ever-proactive in the department of my sister's cultural development, I was instantly on the job, and on Christmas morning she unwrapped a new Janet Jackson CD and a new 90-minute mix tape from me, titled "Girls with Guitars." Within a few months, the mix tape had triumphed, and she was passing feminist folk music along to her friends--kind of scary...
...This year, it's a little different. Despite a persistent affection for Third Eye Blind, she's turned out very well and can perhaps even be trusted to choose her own music. Five years ago I gave her a folk-girl identity in the form of a mix tape; now my highest ambition is to share with her some songs I've really loved. In the end, this is a higher ambition. If she loves those songs as I do, then they are a more lasting form of indoctrination--a real gift of self, if you want to give...
...late now. Harris looks at his watch. He says the time is 1:28 a.m. March 15. Klebold says people will note the date and time when watching it. And he knows what his parents will be thinking. "If only we could have reached them sooner or found this tape," he predicts they will say. "If only we would have searched their room," says Harris. "If only we would have asked the right questions...
...killers made their last videotape on the morning of the massacre. This is the only tape the Klebolds have seen; the Harrises have seen none of them. First Harris holds the camera while Klebold speaks. As the camera zooms in tight, Klebold is wearing a Boston Red Sox cap, turned backward. "It's a half-hour before our Judgment Day," Klebold says into the camera. He wants to tell his parents goodbye. "I didn't like life very much," he says. "Just know I'm going to a better place than here," he says...
...math homework on a calculator; another was filling out a college application; another was reading an article in PEOPLE about Brooke Shields' breakup with Andre Agassi. "Get down!" Nielson screamed. She dialed 911 and dropped the phone when the two gunmen came in. And so the police have a tape of everything that happened next...