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What was your family's primary source of resilience in the face of your ordeal? How can citizens support recovering veterans...
...nearly one week after the gruesome rampage, Kim and her relations remain very distraught over the ordeal, and at a loss to understand how Seung-Hui could have committed such an atrocity, bringing so much shame to his family. "In our family the children don't insult their parents," says Kim whose well-groomed family burial ground sits on a low rise at the back of her property and is visible from her front door. "I don't know how he could do this to his parents. I also feel terrible for the victim's families...
...down,” Murrell says, “but it’ll take him a good five or 10 minutes to come and sit down...there are a lot of interruptions.”For now, even departing from the freshman dining hall is enough of an ordeal. Sundquist’s tray hits the revolving belt in front of the dishwashing depot, and within seconds, its owner has swung one khaki-sheathed leg onto the contraption so that he can lean over and converse with the staff. A few words with Advising Fortnight-hawkers, some hand-slaps...
...take the attack personally. Its target was really that part of Serbian society that believes we can't move forward until we've honestly confronted our past. And, judging by the response of the authorities, something positive may yet come out of the ordeal. Within hours, the director of Serbian police showed up to tell me that finding the attacker is a top priority. President Boris Tadic came over to express his support. Rade Bulatovic, the head of Serbia's main security agency, whom I had often criticized, phoned and offered help. Expressions of outrage and offers of help also...
...protected areas and for research. And Zhang insists that reintroducing pandas into the wild will help sustain populations over the long run. "It is not responsible for anyone to declare that the experiment is pointless," Zhang says. Maybe Wu Gong should put down that bamboo stalk. A less pleasurable ordeal could await him in the wild...