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Today marks two years since Seung-Hui Cho killed 32 students and wounded many others at Virginia Tech in the deadliest single-gunman shooting in U.S. history. In her new book, No Right to Remain Silent, Lucinda Roy gives the first comprehensive account of that day. Then the head of the school's English department, Roy alerted school authorities about Cho's troubling behavior after first encountering him eighteen months prior to the shooting. TIME's Laura Fitzpatrick spoke with Roy about her memories of the gunman and how she thinks we can prevent such a tragedy from happening again...
...past month. Criminologist James Alan Fox, attempting to explain the killings to the Washington Post, said, "The economic pie is shrinking to the point where it looks more like a Pop-Tart." But the Dow was above 12,000 on the April morning two years ago when Cho Seung-Hui made his bid for significance at Virginia Tech. And the rampage of Eric Harris and Dylan Klebold at Columbine High School, 10 Aprils ago, came during a delirious bull...
...might not be radically different. "Do not conflate the end of the Kim regime with the end of North Korea as a state," says Andrew Scobell, a political scientist from Texas A&M University, who wrote a paper for the Pentagon last year assessing the North's future. Baek Seung Joo, who watches North Korea at the Korea Institute for Defense Analysis, says, "We have been through a transition before." When Kim Il Sung, Kim Jong Il's father, died suddenly in 1994, Kim Jong Il succeeded with little apparent problem. "Outsiders," Baek says, "constantly underestimate the durability of this...
...killers were bullied outcasts. Armed-standoff tactics changed too. SWAT teams are now more likely to rush into a building and take down shooters immediately rather than establishing a perimeter and waiting for more information. That strategy may have saved lives at Virginia Tech, where in 2007, Cho Seung-Hui killed 32. (See pictures of the Virginia Tech shooting...
...Finland School Rampage A 22-year-old student killed 11 people, including himself, at a trade school in the town of Kauhajoki, some 180 miles (290 km) northwest of Helsinki, in the world's deadliest school shooting since gunman Cho Seung-Hui massacred 32 at Virginia Tech in April 2007. The incident bore eerie similarities to a killing spree that left nine dead at another Finnish school last November. In both cases, the perpetrator posted ominous videos on YouTube shortly before the attack. The Kauhajoki killer, identified as Matti Juhani Saari (below), had been interviewed by police in connection with...