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...urgent search for meaning ran into the real, raw sense of senselessness. "They were simply in the wrong place at the 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...
...yelling to his students to head for the window. They pushed out the screens, jumped or dropped into bushes below to escape. "I must've been the eighth or ninth person who jumped, and I think I was the last," said Alec Calhoun, who landed in a bush and ran. The two students behind him were shot, he said, and as he climbed out the window, he turned and looked at his teacher, who had stayed behind. Librescu was shot to death through the door...
...living in public through YouTube and social-networking sites. Now members of that generation were killing, dying and mourning in public. When graduate student Jamal Albarghouti saw police drawing guns near Norris Hall, he took out his camera phone and--in the signal impulse of the information-sharing age--ran toward the scene...
...later quit the Army and was granted a temporary pension. When it ran out he got a job as an apprentice carpenter. Friends, who claim Gregg had post-traumatic stress disorder, say having to work worsened his fragile mental state. They learned only after his death that the military superannuation fund had classified Gregg as unable to work and a suicide risk...
...other Republicans questioned Gonzales before lunch and they were easier on him. Sen. Sam Brownback of Kansas simply ran down the list of ousted U.S. attorneys, asking why they had been fired. Gonzales delivered his well-practiced responses. Sen. Orrin Hatch provided the kind of leading questions that are designed to help a witness dig himself out of hole. Gonzales tentatively took the opportunity. After a mid-morning break Sen. Cornyn, an old colleague of Gonzales' from Texas, was equally deferential...