World Bank President Paul Wolfowitz is hanging tough in the face of growing internal criticism over his management style and his role in giving a pay raise and promotion to his companion, Shaha Riza.
The tragedy in Blacksburg, Va., has led one columnist for the Guardian--the student newspaper of Wright State University in Ohio--to urge his classmates to get active about gun control laws. "I would like to point out that new Ohio legislation is NOT helping to prevent similar senseless massacres from happening at WSU," he writes.--K.T.
AP - Two days after the worst killing spree in modern U.S. history, the shooter again assaulted Virginia Tech though this time it was in videos and photographs.
AP - Attorney General Alberto Gonzales was to be summoned to a Capitol Hill showdown Thursday as he fights to save his job in the face of calls for his ouster over the bungled firings of eight U.S. attorneys that Democrats say were driven by party politics.
AP - Grieving relatives retrieved bodies from hospital morgues Thursday, and passers-by gawked at the giant crater left by a market bomb in one of four attacks that killed 183 people on the bloodiest day since the U.S. troop increase began nine weeks ago.
Cho Seung-Hui returned in video form to terrorize members of the Virginia Tech community still reeling from his deadly shooting rampage, painting himself as a persecuted martyr in a rambling and paranoid multimedia message.
Edward Falco is aware not just of the shock and mourning engulfing the campus of Virginia Tech, but also feels the guilt and second-guessing afflicting students and faculty. Falco is the playwriting professor of Cho Seung-Hui, the student who police say killed at least 30 people on the campus before committing suicide. He says Cho's fellow students should feel no guilt.
Had they lived, they might have gone on to change the world as teachers, military officers or engineers -- but the killer who cut so many lives short at Virginia Tech snatched all that away.