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In a remarkable book, Harvard and the Unabomber, about Ted Kacyznski, its author, Alston Chase, says, "The anger that motivated Kacyznski bears an uncanny resemblance to the rage that drove the schoolboys who in recent years have gone berserk, shooting classmates. Like Kacyznski, the Columbine High School killers, Eric Harris and Dylan Klebold, were motivated by rage, not only against those they saw despoiling the environment but also against the dominant school culture that ridiculed them." "Meanwhile," Chase noted, "high schools are even less dedicated to learning than they were, choosing instead to ensure that students conform to the canons...