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Facing the unique.(on the right)
NEW YORK, APRIL 20
THE search for the propellant of the killer-madness in Cho Seung-Hui tells us more about disorders in American thought than about those of the murderer. Recall first and foremost that the crime was quickly identified as the "bloodiest shooting attack in American history" done by a single person. We accepted this--but quickly rejected its corollary: namely, that if it was that--the most violent rampage in 231 years of history--then it had some claim to be called unique. In fact it differs in magnitude but not in kind from shootings in which 23 or 19 people were killed. If a man jumps out of an airplane window at 25,000 feet and survives, it is ...
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