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...wrong time," President George W. Bush said plainly of the students who perished, and parents listening jammed their fists into their eyes and shuddered. There is no sweetness in sorrow, no matter how your child dies--on a battlefield, on a mission or on a Monday morning in German class. But there was something especially awful about meeting these students in the quick cable-news compression of remembrance and mourning. She was a belly dancer, he was a track star; there was also an Air Force cadet, a camp counselor, a songwriter--in every case a portrait of promise...
Introductory German was meeting in Room 207, a couple dozen students in their first class of the day, when Cho peered in, as though he was looking for someone. One student thought he looked like a Boy Scout. He was wearing the school color--a maroon cap--and a vest with pockets for his ammunition. When he went back into the classroom, he was quiet and purposeful. First he shot instructor Jamie Bishop, 35, in the head. Then he went methodically around the room. Derek O'Dell was hit in the arm; when Cho finally left for the next room...
...most of the last half-century, Düsseldorf, the capital of the German state of North Rhine-Westphalia, relied almost entirely on its harbor for its growth within the Rhineland, Europe's third strongest economic region after London and Paris. And as the city began to shift from strategic shipping hub to creative media center in the early 1990s, its chevron-shaped dockside led the way. Today, following over a decade of frenzied development, MedienHafen (Media Harbor) has become a hip center for great restaurants, swish bars and dimly lit lounges, many housed in outré structures designed...
...Christopher James Bishop, 35, taught German at Virginia Tech and helped oversee an exchange program with a German university. Bishop decided which German-language students at Virgina Tech could attend the Darmstadt University of Technology to improve their German. "He would teach them German in Blacksburg, and he would decide which students were able to study" abroad, Darmstadt spokesman Lars Rosumek said...
...Bishop earned bachelor's and master's degrees in German and was a Fulbright scholar at Christian-Albrechts University in Kiel, Germany. According to his Web site, Bishop spent four years living in Germany, where he "spent most of his time learning the language, teaching English, drinking large quantities of wheat beer, and wooing a certain fraulein." The "fraulein" was Bishop's wife, Stephanie Hofer, who also teaches in Virginia Tech's German program...