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...priority. President Boris Tadic came over to express his support. Rade Bulatovic, the head of Serbia's main security agency, whom I had often criticized, phoned and offered help. Expressions of outrage and offers of help also came from judges, politicians, diplomats, colleagues and ordinary Joes. And on Monday at noon, traffic was blocked for five minutes in all of Serbia's major towns and cities as a symbolic gesture against the attack. So the grenades may have served as a wake-up call to Serbia to renounce violence and stop its slide toward the ugly past. Maybe this time...
...winds were April cruel in Blacksburg on Monday: too strong for helicopters to evacuate the most badly wounded that morning, too strong for candles that night. The vigils would have to wait; the students grieved in the privacy of their dorms. The stately, sprawling campus of Virginia Tech was littered with broken branches; yellow police tape ribboned through a tree as if the gusts had tied it there, mourning those who would not be coming back. The locals said the winds rose to carry the angels down so they could take the children home...
...wrong place at the wrong time," President George W. Bush said plainly of the students who perished, and parents listening jammed their fists into their eyes and shuddered. There is no sweetness in sorrow, no matter how your child dies--on a battlefield, on a mission or on a Monday morning in German class. But there was something especially awful about meeting these students in the quick cable-news compression of remembrance and mourning. She was a belly dancer, he was a track star; there was also an Air Force cadet, a camp counselor, a songwriter--in every case...
...Seung-Hui, Columbine killers Dylan Klebold and Eric Harris were "martyrs." In a video Cho sent to NBC on Monday, the day he shot 32 students and professors at Virginia Tech before taking his own life, Cho glorified Klebold and Harris, leaving many to wonder if Cho was mimicking the attack at the Littleton, Colo., high school, which occurred eight years ago Friday...
...week of the Virginia Tech tragedy, TIME sought out some of the survivors of Columbine, to see how they have coped and to find out what connections they see between Monday's shooting and their own nightmare eight years...