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...hiding in plain sight, a man who wore a hat and sunglasses inside, a student with no Facebook page. Talking to him, said English department head Lucinda Roy, "was like talking to a hole. He wasn't there most of the time." Even students who had lived with him knew virtually nothing about him; the simplest conversations--Where are you from? What's your major?--got a monosyllabic response. A "hello" was a big deal. They never heard him talk about weapons or killing or violence--because he never talked at all. "We just thought he was shy," his suitemate...
...classrooms were open Monday morning at 7, including the three that had been closed off on Friday after university officials received the second bomb threat in as many weeks. They had offered a $5,000 reward to anyone who knew anything and were supposed to meet that morning to discuss security measures. It would be too late before anyone came across a posting on a school online forum, which police now believe was left by Cho: "I'm going to kill people at Vtech today...
...room doctor said there weren't any victims with fewer than three bullets in them. Dr. David Stoeckle told of treating a student with a gunshot through his femoral artery. The student was an Eagle Scout, he said. "He wrapped an electrical cord tight around his leg because he knew he was bleeding to death...
...From a legal standpoint, this distinction is crucial. As law professor Michael Krauss of George Mason University in Virginia points out, "We never judge negligence in hindsight. We always judge it in foresight." And you can make a good case that the Virginia Tech cops and other employees who knew of Cho's erratic, self-destructive, and possibly criminal behavior since the fall of 2005 should have done more to help him or expel...
During his intensive preparations for Thursday's hearing by the Senate Judiciary Committee, embattled Attorney General Alberto Gonzales knew that Democrats would be laying into him about allegations of incompetence, misstatements and undue political influence in the firing of eight U.S. attorneys last year. But he had to at least hope that Republicans wouldn't be his major challenge as he scrambled to save his job. Given the tense questioning, however, it's clear that Gonzales has his hands full with both parties...