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Killer's family

Suzanne Goldenberg in Washington and Ed Pilkington in New York
Saturday April 21, 2007
The Guardian

The family of Cho Seung-hui, who shot 32 people dead before turning his gun on himself, made their first public comments…

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Jonathan Watts in Goyang
Friday April 20, 2007
The Guardian

The brooding silence of Cho Seung-hui was so impenetrable it disturbed his family even when he was growing up in South Korea, relatives of the Virginia killer told the Guardian…

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Bobbie Johnson and Lee Glendinning
Wednesday April 18, 2007
The Guardian

Within hours of news of the Blacksburg shootings, a picture of the terror inflicted by 23-year-old Korean student Cho Seung-hui was being built online through videos,…

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Ewen MacAskill
Wednesday April 18, 2007
The Guardian

A survivor of the Holocaust died trying to save his students from the Virginia Tech gunman, it emerged yesterday.
Liviu Librescu, 76, who survived the Nazi killings, later escaped from…

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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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 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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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