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- There is a gunman on campus; tragedy and terror at Virginia Tech
- There is a gunman on campus; tragedy and terror at Virginia Tech. Ed. by Ben Agger and Timothy W. Luke. Rowman & Littlefield 2008 263 pages $28.95 Paperback HV6534 On April 16, 2007, at Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University (commonly called...
- Research articles 2008-08-01
- They Said What?
- "It is beginning to feel as if there is a real evil in our society and although the numbers are not enormous, they are horrifying and each one is an absolute tragedy" - Simon Hughes, for the Liberal Democrats, after more violent deaths in the capital. "We have a...
- Research articles 2008-07-05
- Inquiry closes into Trump's Scottish golf course plans
- LONDON AFP — A public inquiry into a refusal to allow Donald Trump to build a luxury golf resort in Scotland ended Friday, with the US property tycoon's lawyer saying it would be a "tragedy" if it was not built. "In my submission, this truly is a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity....
- Research articles 2008-07-04
- Dalai Lama baulks at Sharon Stone's 'karma' quake remark
- SYDNEY AFP — The Dalai Lama distanced himself Thursday from Hollywood star Sharon Stone's controversial comment that China's earthquake was bad "karma" for its handling of Tibet. Stone cited the Tibetan spiritual leader as her "good friend" when she made the remark at the Cannes film festival last month....
- Research articles 2008-06-11
- Chinese Internet portal Sina launches English site
- BEIJING AFP — Leading Chinese Internet portal Sina.com has launched an English news site, amid intense global interest in China following last week's earthquake tragedy. "We have chosen to launch our English news site now as we would like to provide up-to-minute coverage of the earthquake for overseas people...
- Research articles 2008-05-19
- UN's top disaster official arrives in Myanmar
- YANGON AFP — The UN's top disaster official John Holmes arrived in Myanmar on Sunday on a three-day visit to convince the reluctant regime to open the doors to a massive relief effort after Cyclone Nargis. He arrived just hours after the latest UN emergency report on the country...
- Research articles 2008-05-18
- Theater opens 'Macbeth" tonight on its main stageBard returns to TCT
- By Bill Blankenship THE CAPITAL-JOURNAL The Bard is back at Topeka Civic Theatre & Academy, which tonight opens "Macbeth," its fourth Shakespearean production in six years. In addition to nine public performances before closing May 3, the classic tragedy about greed for power and...
- Research articles 2008-04-18
- Appeal after tragedy
- POLICE today appealed for witnesses to a death crash on the M62. A 10-year-old boy died and four people in the same car were badly hurt in the smash early on Tuesday evening. The crash happened on the westbound carriageway approaching the Lofthouse interchange near Wakefield at junction...
- Research articles 2008-04-17
- Tragedy of the cockle pickers centrepiece of cultural festival
- NEWCASTLE, England AFP — "Show me somewhere I can shelter. Give me tools to make a living, lead me in the right direction," pleads the disorientated and dishevelled visitor to a strange city. What fate has in store for this Chinese migrant and his fellows, would prove to be...
- Research articles 2008-04-16
- Letters:
- Feel-good gun laws Is this a joke? Mayor Nutter likens the signing of meaningless, feel-good gun-control measures to the founding of the greatest, most powerful nation in the world ("Nutter defiantly signs five gun laws," April 11)? I suppose it would have been more of a tragedy had the recent...
- Research articles 2008-04-13
- A VIRGINIA TECH MFT ETHICS CLASS REFLECTS ON THE SHOOTINGS AT VIRGINIA TECH
- The authors of this article include the professor and most of the students in a doctoral course on marriage and family therapy ethical and professional issues that met the semester that a disturbed student shot and killed 32 Virginia Tech students and faculty before killing himself. In this article, we...
- Research articles 2008-04-01
- On a Fateful Anniversary, Remembrances in More Than 50 Communities Across America to Urge Common Sense Gun Laws
- To: NATIONAL EDITORS Contact: Brady Campaign Communications, +1-202-898-0792, phamm@bradymail.org Immediate Goal Is Congressional Passage of Legislation to Close the Gun Show Loophole WASHINGTON, March 27 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- On Wednesday, April 16, the first anniversary of the terrible tragedy that took 32 innocent lives at Virginia Tech, local citizens in...
- Research articles 2008-03-27
- Spanish "Belle Epoque" scriptwriter Rafael Azcona dies aged 81
- MADRID AFP — Spanish scriptwriter Rafael Azcona, who wrote the screenplay for the Oscar-winning film "Belle Epoque" starring Penelope Cruz, died Monday at the age of 81, Spanish media reported. Azcona's wife Susi said he had been battling lung cancer for a long time, the web site of top-selling...
- Research articles 2008-03-25
- Ex-chief weapons inspector slams Iraq war as 'tragedy'
- LONDON AFP — Hans Blix, the former chief UN weapons inspector, slammed the Iraq war as a "tragedy" and blamed it on leaders ignoring the facts, in a comment piece published Thursday. Writing in The Guardian on the five-year anniversary of the US-led invasion of Iraq, Blix, who clashed...
- Research articles 2008-03-19
- Yankees pay tribute to college slaying victims
- BLACKSBURG, Virginia AFP — In an emotional tribute to 32 slain students, the New York Yankees were moved to tears here Tuesday as the Major League Baseball stars played an exhibition game against Virginia Tech. The Yankees' 11-0 victory was far less important to the 5,500 people in attendance...
- Research articles 2008-03-18
- Albania's blast toll mounts as rescuers look for victims
- GERDEC, Albania AFP — The death toll in Albania's munitions blast tragedy mounted to nine on Sunday as rescuers combed through the rubble of an army depot housing communist-era weaponry and destroyed homes. Albanian Prime Minister Sali Berisha said "three more victims were found at the site of the...
- Research articles 2008-03-16
- Congress subpoenas owners of Utah mine
- WASHINGTON AP -- A congressional committee on Friday subpoenaed two of the owners of Utah's Crandall Canyon Mine, where six miners died in a roof collapse last August. The subpoenas order Robert E. Murray, CEO of the Ohio-based Murray Energy Corp., and P. Bruce Hill, president of UtahAmerican...
- Research articles 2008-02-23
- Coaching fraternity counsels another through tragedy
- One of the first things Seth Greenberg did when he heard the news from Northern Illinois University was pick up the phone. A disturbed young man carrying demons and weapons had turned another campus into a killing ground. Students were gunned down in the spring of...
- Research articles 2008-02-19
- Illinois Council Against Handgun Violence Response to Shootings at Northern Illinois University
- To: STATE EDITORS Contact: Thom Mannard of Illinois Council Against Handgun Violence, +1-312-341-0939 CHICAGO, Feb. 15 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- The following statement was released by Thom Mannard, Executive Director of the Illinois Council Against Handgun Violence. Yesterday, our nation was stunned once again by a mass murder that occurred on...
- Research articles 2008-02-15
- How To Prevent A Tragedy
- Tucked away in rural Southwest Virginia, remote Blacksburg is an unlikely spot for the worst school shooting in U.S. history. Nevertheless, an April 16 rampage by a mentally disturbed student, Seung-Hui Cho, left 32 people dead. In the wake of that tragedy, Virginia Tech has begun to make changes in...
- Research articles 2008-01-07
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