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...dead and wounded. He thinks he heard Cho reload three times, and at every shot he braced himself, thinking, "This one is for me." His mind wandered; he wondered what a gunshot wound feels like, how much it would hurt. He wondered if he would die slow or fast, and then he thought of his family. "I was terrified that my parents weren't going to be able to go on after I was gone." There was a student in front of him, also under a desk. He didn't know her name, but they kept eye contact...
...Amish schoolhouse or any of the instantly iconic places where we have seen our children die, for these were not children. They were young adults who had come to learn how to live as full adults, on their own. Yet it still felt protected, different somehow from the fast-food restaurants or office buildings or factory floors where grownups do their random killing. Every student said it: the place was special...
...People who are really, really grieving, who had friends and family at Virginia Tech, may not have thought it was enough, but I personally am really satisfied and really impressed by how fast the administration responded,” said Brown freshman Molly A. Jacobson. “I don’t think that I personally can think of anything more they could have done...
...allowed Dartmouth to close out the half on a 5-1 run, ending the period with a score of 14-5. The Crimson showed its resilience by winning the first two draws of the second half, but, at that point, the rolling Big Green offense was going too fast to stop. After the first few minutes of the half, Dartmouth hit a 4-0 run that gave them a more-than-comfortable 18-5 lead. The game was not nearly over for Harvard, though, and hard-nosed defensive play paired with a newly sparked offense pushed the Crimson...
...detailed descriptions of precisely where and when the attacks would happen. Klebold and Harris went so far as to post their lethal ruminations on the Web. The key, Pollack insists, is for friends and family members to be alert to these and other cues and to act on them - fast. "Connection, connection, connection," he says. "It's through these connections that people in authority, when they hear certain things, can provide the appropriate help...