There are no isolated incidents. Incidents are linked, even though the threads seem tenuous. Bullied as a boy in riot-torn Harlem, I held on to my rage until I exploded. I transformed myself from a shy, bookish boy to an out-of-control beast for short periods of time. I'd smash you with half a brick, kick you, whatever it took to protect myself."Any man whose errors take 10 years to correct is quite a man," American physicist Robert Oppenheimer once said.