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When the acclaimed novelist Gary Shteyngart appeared at the Brattle Theatre for a freewheeling discussion on Monday, the topics ranged from being paid in cheese for his first writing assignment to avoiding the sophomore slump to emigrating from the Soviet Union. He also read from his second novel, “Absurdistan,” which he called “the story of a very large man who destroys a very small country.” In “Absurdistan,” which was named one of the ten best books of the year...
...keep shooting people - something almost no murderer does - is different from assuming that a person who has long been identified as a threat, as Cho had, won't hurt someone. The fateful decisions that cost the lives of 30 more people at Virginia Tech weren't made on Monday morning; they were made in the previous 18 months...
...gotten. NBC was under criticism all day today for its decision to air parts of the macabre video rant that had been mailed to the network by Cho Seung-Hui, who may have shot it in the two hours between his two lethal rampages on the Virginia Tech campus Monday. The video was riveting. And inevitably, also revolting. Millions watched it last night. Today came the recriminations...
...Virginia State Police Col. Steve Flaherty, the agency superintendent, said that he was disappointed that NBC had decided to air 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 this week school officials at Virginia Tech announced that they were cancelling classes for the rest of the week. Today they went a step further. Though classes are scheduled to resume on Monday, the university is looking for ways to allow students to end their academic year now without penalty, perhaps by accepting whatever grade they have at this point in the term. And one more thing - Virginia Tech decided it would award degrees posthumously to all 32 victims...