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There was bound to be anger and accusations in the aftermath, and these too went ricocheting through the campus. Wednesday morning even brought a death threat against university president Charles Steger. Why hadn't more been done when it became clear to students and faculty that there there was a very troubled young man in their midst, and why hadn't the school been locked down immediately after the first shootings were reported? "I think the university has blood on their hands because of their lack of action after the first incident," said freshman Billy Bason, 18, who lived...
...party basis, according to the latest Newspoll. On the poll's question of who is better to lead the country, Rudd is ahead of Howard 48% to 36%. Rudd's job description, as he told reporters in Sydney before embarking on a trans-Pacific flight last Wednesday, is Alternative Prime Minister of Australia. As he fronts this week's ALP national conference for the first time as leader, Rudd will be playing to his party's supreme policy-making body. The former diplomat and high-level technocrat is not a creature of Labor's factions or union base, which makes...
...parts of the video. NBC executives gave police the entire package that was sent to NBC studios on Monday by Cho - a rambling 23-page written statement, 28 video clips and 43 photos - but Flaherty says it contained little that the police did not already know. The portions broadcast Wednesday night on the NBC Evening News were so upsetting to relatives of some of the victims that they canceled plans to be interviewed on Today...
Earlier in the day Wednesday, authorities disclosed that more than a year before the massacre, Cho was accused of stalking two women and was taken to a psychiatric hospital on a magistrate's orders because of fears he might be suicidal. He was later released with orders to undergo outpatient treatment...
...Wednesday's bloodbath in Baghdad is a stark reminder that while the U.S. troop surge into the capital has brought a significant decline in sectarian killings by Shi'ite death squads, the Sunni insurgency and its terror attacks on Shi'ite civilians have continued to take a dreadful toll. More than 150 people were killed Wednesday as explosion after explosion rocked Shi'ite neighborhoods: The attacks left more than 100 workers dead in a Shi'ite neighborhood food market; more than 40 dead at a police checkpoint; and 11 killed in front of a hospital...