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By Zhang Xin
[ 2007-04-24 15:42 ]

Last week, in the immediate aftermath of the Virginia Tech shootings, some people apparently tried to stick it on Korea, or China, or Asia in general, all on the strength of such weak arguments that Cho…

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www.chinaview.cn 2007-04-18 16:42:35

BEIJING, April 18 (Xinhua) -- Chinese Foreign Ministry spokesman Liu Jianchao Wednesday criticized some U.S. media's irresponsible reports on the Virginia Tech shooting before finding out the truth,…

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A Chinese woman assistant professor, or rather a doctoral student at the college of engineering at Virginia Tech, has shed a light onto the campus shooting rampage on April 16, which claimed a toll of 33 lives (including that of the gunman himself).…

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UPDATED: 17:04, April 19, 2007

A total of 33 people, including the gunman Seung-Hui Cho, 23, were killed Monday at Virginia Tech University in the deadiest shooting rampage in modern US history. The whole of the United States is stunned and…

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Friday, April 20, 2007 - The China Post

A total of 32 people were killed Monday in a Virginia Tech campus building in the deadliest shooting rampage in modern U.S. history. The gunman, a student from South Korea, took down his victims in two…

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Sometimes I'm just amazed at the ignorance of people. I've come across many blog entries that are outright idiotic but usually chalk it up to 'that's where they're coming from' or 'everyone's entitled to their…

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May 1, 2007 4:51 pm

An article from a new contributor:
Loren Bliss

THERE ARE TWO EXCEPTIONALLY grave dangers to American liberty arising from the present, post-Virginia-Tech forcible-disarmament frenzy. These are:

(1)-The criminalization of…

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About the bird:

Cranes are large, long-legged and long-necked birds of the order Gruiformes, and family Gruidae. Unlike the similar-looking but unrelated herons, cranes fly with necks outstretched, not pulled back. Most have elaborate and noisy…

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A large glass display class on the first floor of Squires Student Center is filled with paper cranes. The sign on the display case reads "please feel free to take as many as you want." Many thousands of cranes were folded and contributed after the…

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A large glass display class on the first floor of Squires Student Center is filled with paper cranes. An overflow box of cranes sits on the floor to the side. A sign on the other side of the display case reads "please feel free to take as many as you…

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Close-up of origami cranes in a box on the first floor of Squires Student Center. A sign on an adjacent display case reads "please feel free to take as many as you want." Many thousands of cranes were folded and contributed after the events of April…

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Publicado por Mariluz Barrera González
viernes 20 de abril de 2007

Siempre pienso en mi padre, en cualquier instante de mi vida, siempre está presente. Sobre todo en los momentos más difíciles o cuando siento que las cosas empeoran cada vez…

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Publicado por Batz
Friday, April 20, 2007

Todos vimos/leímos sobre la matanza que hubo en Virginia Tech esta semana. Un suceso terrible que personalmente me sorprendió mucho por estar tan cercano al pueblo al que me fui de intercambio en 1997,…

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Publicado por Carmen Moreno Martín
Miércoles, 18 de Abril de 2007 11:28

En la universidad de Virginia Tech -clicad aquí- se vivieron momentos en los que el sin sentido y el pánico fueron los únicos rectores de las conductas. Treinta y dos…

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Wednesday April 18 2007

By Mark Tran / USA 04:39pm

Like others around the world, South Koreans have reacted with horror to the killings at Virginia Tech university, but they are also nervous about a possible backlash against the large Korean…

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Debbie Andalo
Tuesday April 17, 2007
EducationGuardian.co.uk

The mass shooting at Virginia Tech University could easily happen on a UK campus, an academic and former vice-president of a US institution warned today.
Prof Geoffrey Alderman,…

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Ewen MacAskill in Blacksburg
Tuesday April 17, 2007
Guardian Unlimited

Alec Calhoun, an engineering student at Virginia Tech, described today an individual act of bravery by one of his professors that saved his life.
Mr Calhoun, 20, had been…

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Letters

Wednesday April 18, 2007
The Guardian

We have heard the arguments for years regarding the modern-day relevance or not of the second amendment, which engrains the right to bears arms into the American constitution and psyche, and they…

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Commentary

John Monahan and Jeffrey Swanson
Sunday April 22, 2007
The Observer

One of the largest mass killings in American history was carried out last Monday at the hands of a 23-year-old university student with mental illness. The…

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11.15am
Media reports portray Cho Seung-hui as a troubled boy with a murderous imagination

Michelle Pauli
Wednesday April 18, 2007
Guardian Unlimited

Just one face stares out of the front pages of the papers today. With the naming of…

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