The attack — and the news that the cult had attracted students from Japan's elite universities — at first caused nationwide hand-wringing about the country's narrow, education-driven path to success, which demands extreme conformity while offering few outlets for individual expression.
News sites like GroundReport and CNN's iReport are offering users outlets for their eyewitness stories, and with emerging mobile broadcasting products like Twitter and Qik, we're only going to see the trend continue to grow.
But as audiences roared their gleeful appreciation, I realised we were offering an outlet for an anger not yet fully expressed.
Settled in 1740, it developed after 1882, when it became a junction of the Shenandoah Valley Railroad and the Norfolk and Western Railroad, offering an outlet for the coal deposits of Virginia and West Virginia.
He has been the catalyst: powerful in the air and fast across the ground, impossible to knock off the ball, offering an outlet and, alongside Rondón, providing a dynamism and momentum that opposition teams can't counteract.
Besides building confidence and offering an outlet for expression to people who struggled all day in an unfamiliar language, it could provide Hispanic immigrants with an opportunity to display their culture to the larger community and remind children about their heritage.
Beyond offering an outlet, the attacks on the electrical grid have a decent track record of getting results; as some see it, the whole thing is almost a sort of game.
I'm yet to read other media outlets offering support for the small publisher.
Or, horror of horrors, fast food outlets offering Big Macs, Whoppers and buckets of fried chicken along the seaside Malecón?
