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...later, at about 3:00 a.m., she heard the stirrings of her younger brother, Kim Hyang Sik, 82, from the adjacent room, who let Kim know, to her everlasting horror, that the young man was in fact Korean and kin. "I can't describe my emotions," says Seung-Hui Cho's great-aunt and the matriarch of his mother's clan, who have the surname Kim. "We don't even have any divorces in our family and everyone's sons and daughters obey their parents...
...Before Seung-Hui Cho's seething inner life erupted in public violence, Virginia Tech was quietly, perfectly all about this: sports and spirit. A freshly cut lawn. Maroon baseball hats and orange t-shirts. Applause and high-fives for a baseball team that doesn't always win, but always plays hard...
...Cho's rampage was an orgy of hate, then here, in this oversized purple turkey clowning for a crowd of students and kids, was the perfect antidote: a wanton display of innocence...
...Virginia State Supreme Court. Zdanowicz, who serves on the task force, said the chief justice had become concerned that the criminal justice system was, in effect, becoming the state's mental health care system, where jails are poor substitutes for failing and too few mental health care facilities. The Cho shootings will bring even closer scrutiny of the imminent danger language in the state's assisted treatment laws, according to Zdanowicz. And retired Virginia state police superintendent Col. W. Gerald Massengill, who will chair the commission named by Virginia Gov. Timothy Kaine to investigate the shootings, has already said...
...none other than former President Bill Clinton, who in the past has blamed some national Democratic party losses on the gun control debate, has added his voice to a chorus of others this week calling for a different approach. When Larry King asked Clinton Thursday about gun control and Cho's rampage, he responded: "It wasn't really the gun laws." He added: "This case gives us the obligation to look at how our mental health system works." If the Virginia Tech massacre has any lasting legacy, perhaps it will be in getting both sides of the gun control debate...