| Misfits on a mission to delete us all
As well as honouring Hitler's mechanisation of murder, he paid tribute to more immediate predecessors - juvenile assassins like the Korean student Seung-Hui Cho, who slaughtered 32 people on the campus of Virginia Tech last April, or Dylan Klebold and Eric Harris, who planned to bomb their high school at Columbine in Colorado on Hitler's birthday in 1999 and, when their home-made explosives fizzled out, contented themselves with shooting 12 students. Auvinen's rant concluded by bragging that his rampage vouched for his personal authenticity: 'This is my war, my idea and my plans.' He argued that the crime he was shortly to commit should not be assigned to the genre of what he called 'school shootings', familiar from Columbine and therefore banal. Yet he lived in a culture of facsimiles and hand-me-downs, and his boast paraphrased what Klebold and Harris said in a videotape they recorded on the last night of their lives.
Mortgage Crisis Forces Big Cuts at WaMu
Washington Mutual Inc., the nation's largest savings and loan, said Monday problems in the mortgage and credit markets are forcing it to close offices, slash over 3,100 jobs, and set aside far more than expected for loan losses in its fourth quarter. The company also said it was slashing its dividend 73 percent. .
Michigan Woes Alter Campaigns
The Wall Street Journal/NBC News poll, which Mr. McInturff conducts with Democratic pollster Peter Hart, in December registered a record level of economic anxiety among Americans. And the concerns about globalization aren't limited to lower-income and less-educated Americans, but extend to high-income, educated professionals as well. "It is kind of unexpected it took getting to Michigan to get candidates to start talking about it," Mr. McInturff said. "The Republicans do not have to do this today to win the nomination," but "the Republican nominee will need to address these economic concerns to win the election." Republican strategist John Weaver agrees, but says all the candidates are struggling with the issue. Mr. Weaver, formerly Sen. McCain's adviser, says: "Huckabee shows the correct empathy, but is offering medicine which will kill the patient.
Report: Entertainers in Steroid Report
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Update: Teens who raped disabled woman sentenced
Three teenagers who raped a disabled woman in an alley were jailed today. Ashley Mitchell, 19, Kersley McDermott, 18, and 17-year-old Curtis Clinton were found guilty of pushing the middle-aged woman, who suffers from MS, into the alley in Upton Road, Thornton Heath, last month. Both Mitchell and McDermott then forced her to perform a sex act while Clinton kept watch. At Croydon Crown Court this morning Mitchell and McDermott, who had tears in his eyes as he stood in the dock, were sentenced to five years in a young offenders' institution. Clinton was given three years in a young offenders' institution. All three will also be on placed on the sex offenders' register. .
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