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...Washington, where they owned a dry-cleaning business. The family looked American Dream--y: they lived in a tidy cream row house with a vegetable plot in back where they grew lettuce and tomatoes. The parents were quiet, their English limited, but they worked hard and saw their daughter Sun-Kung head off to Princeton as an economics major, their son to Virginia Tech to major in English...
...further. Morocco's High Atlas range is a stunning destination, and easier to reach than you'd think. From Marrakech, it's a mere 90-minute drive up a winding valley road to the Toubkal National Park. Before you know it, you're sipping mint tea atop a sun-drenched terrace ogling the Djebel Toubkal, North Africa's highest peak...
...recipient. “For over a half century, she has given masterful stage and screen performances that have awed and inspired Americans of all backgrounds,” Counter said. Dee, who starred opposite Sidney Poitier in the 1961 film, “A Raisin in the Sun,” has been known throughout her acting career for portraying characters on stage and screen that countered racial stereotypes. Along with her late-husband Ossie Davis, Dee is known for her work in civil rights. After accepting the award, Dee delivered the annual Peter J. Gomes Humanitarian Lecture...
...Bush left Andrews on Air Force One under low, leaden skies and landed at Roanoke under high, blue ones. Where Washington was cold and still wintry, the countryside between Roanoke and Blacksburg, viewed below on the helicopter ride to the Virginia Tech campus, was basking in sun and warm air. The contrast continued in Blacksburg, where the massive auditorium seemed ready not for a memorial, but for a college basketball game. It was packed to the rafters with chatting students, most in orange or maroon shirts or hoodies bearing the Virginia Tech logo. The rafters themselves were hung with banners...
...least 30 people at Norris Hall shortly after 9 a.m. was described by some sources as an Asian man. He apparently killed himself at the end of the rampage, shooting off half of his face and thus preventing law enforcement officers from making an immediate identification. The Chicago Sun-Times reported that a 24-year old student from China is person of interest in the case. He arrived in San Francisco in August on a visa issued in Shanghai. According to the Sun-Times, bomb threats that Virginia Tech experienced last month may have been attempts to test campus security...