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Meanwhile it looked like moving day at Virginia Tech, with students rolling duffels everywhere, parents not leaving without their kids because, as one mother said, she wanted to be able to hug her son anytime she felt like it. Yes, this was not Columbine or an Amish schoolhouse or any of the instantly iconic places where we have seen our children die, for these were not children. They were young adults who had come to learn how to live as full adults, on their own. Yet it still felt protected, different somehow from the fast-food restaurants or office buildings...
...multimedia manifesto that Cho Seung-Hui shipped to NBC News, in between rounds of killing, included the digital picture shown above of the Virginia Tech murderer brandishing two pistols. A message about the times is implicit: that the technology for recording horror has advanced, even if the technology for inflicting it has not. The rambling rationalizations, the pictures of hollow-point bullets--Cho's final testament was like a deranged MySpace parody...
...also conferred a shroud of privacy amid the spectacle. Fox News anchor Shepard Smith noted seeing students silently text-messaging before the Tuesday memorial service. "It feels like there is an undercurrent of information being passed that doesn't reach to our level but is remaining within the Virginia Tech family," he said...
While most other Ivy League universities issued letters of condolence to their communities in the wake of the Virginia Tech shootings on Monday, Harvard’s top administrators have remained largely silent and left the job of consoling students to the undergraduate Houses...
...Tuesday night, each of the seven Ivies had either posted messages of sympathy on their Web sites extending condolences to the Virginia Tech community or announced plans for vigils to commemorate the victims, if they had not already held...