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...applaud TIME for featuring victims of the Virginia Tech tragedy on the cover [April 30]. You reminded us that the lives taken were real. Some of the photos hinted at extracurricular interests; others were obviously school, military or formal photographs. All were pictures of promise. The images of Cho Seung-Hui were disturbing and indicative of the evil in the world. But the faces staring at me from your cover, while heartbreaking, were reminders of the love and promise that abound. Thank you for showing them to us. Christopher Yodice, LEVITTOWN, NEW YORK...
...Your cover was a very stirring tribute and a great way to memorialize victims of the terrible tragedy that was the Virginia Tech shooting. Unfortunately, Cho's face was missing. While far from a tragic hero, of course, he did die that day, and there's no telling how his death - and that of 32 other people - could have been avoided. M. Brandon Robbins, GOLDSBORO, NORTH CAROLINA...
...students can be notified immediately of a life-threatening crisis? Sending an e-mail is a little like sending notices by post to a population about to be hit by a tsunami. That said, those of us living and teaching in Canada are very saddened by the events at Virginia Tech and send everyone our sympathies and support. Benet Davetian, CHARLOTTETOWN, CANADA...
...Still, there is no reason to believe that the gun dealers who sold Virginia tech shooter Seung Hui Cho the two handguns he used in the killings were in violation of any existing law. But congressman Mike Castle (R-Del.), a moderate Republican who penned the now-lapsed Assault Weapons Ban, thinks that making sure existing laws are enforced may be the most gun-control advocates can hope for in the current political environment. After the Virginia Tech shootings, even the Democrats that now control Congress didn't seem to have much stomach for a gun-control debate that many...
...Even in Guatemala, Latin America's most Protestant nation, there are signs that the more charismatic approach of the Catholic Church can reverse the trend. The number of Guatemalan Protestants stopped growing at the start of the decade and now numbers between 33% and 40%, according to Dr. Virginia Garrard-Burnett, Interim Director of the Religious Studies Program at the University of Texas. Every nation in this once homogenously Catholic continent has a bedrock of Catholic support that will never be eroded, and the numbers presented in Brazil last week may be a sign that those willing to choose...