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• Virginia Tech says gunman in nation's deadliest shooting was student

  - 2007-04-17

  BLACKSBURG, Va. -- The gunman suspected of carrying out the Virginia Tech massacre that left 33 people dead was identified Tuesday as an English major whose creative writing was so disturbing that he was referred to the school's counseling service. News reports also said that he may have...

  Tags: attack, SECURITY, Tribune Co., U.S., Virginia, Virginia Tech

• Troubled SKorean 'loner' adds name to list of mass killers

  - 2007-04-16

  BLACKSBURG, United States AFP — A day after the deadliest school shooting in US history, a portrait emerged of the 23-year-old South Korean gunman as a disturbed, isolated man whose gory writings troubled his classmates and teachers. Cho Seung-Hui moved to the United States when he was just eight,...

  Tags: Agence France-Presse, CAREER, Construction, Government, Tribune Co., U.S.

• Newspaper ideological bias or "statist quo"? The acid test

  - 2006-07-01

  I Introduction FOR 30 YEARS, debate has swirled around the alleged "liberal bias" of U.S. journalists, and especially journalists who write for publications such as Time, Newsweek, the New York Times, and the Washington Post. Sutter (2001) has written that a veritable "cottage industry" has sprung up as...

  Tags: Boston Globe, Bush, Government, hypothesis, journalist, Media, Monthly, New York Times Co., regression, Robert, scientist, SOFTWARE, Tribune Co., U.S., Washington Post Co.

• Powell says immigration a priority, but doesn't want to 'overpromise'.

  - 2004-11-10

  By Hugh Dellios, Chicago Tribune Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News Nov. 10--MEXICO CITY -- In a quick visit Tuesday, U.S. Secretary of State Colin Powell tried to temper Mexican hopes for changes in immigration policy that would allow more Mexican workers to enter...

  Tags: Bush, immigration, Tribune Co., U.S., U.S. Congress, worker

• Chicago Tribune Jim Mateja column.

  - 2004-11-10

  By Jim Mateja, Chicago Tribune Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News Nov. 10--COST-CUTTING DRIVES TOYOTA PROFIT: Toyota is a master when it comes to turning lemons into lemonade. Last week at his semiannual financial update for analysts and media, Toyota Chairman Hiroshi...

  Tags: FINANCE, Toyota Motor Corp., Tribune Co., U.S.

• Scottsdale, Ariz.-based Taser benefits from stun gun airline approval.

  - 2004-11-09

  By John Yantis, The Tribune, Mesa, Ariz. Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News Nov. 9--Federal authorities approved using electric stun guns on commercial aircraft in the United States, shooting Scottsdale-based Taser International's stock price up nearly 17apercent Monday. Last week, the...

  Tags: aircraft, benefit, Korean Air, Manufacturing, TASER International Inc., Transportation Security Administration, Tribune Co., U.S.

• Troops prepare offensive as Iraqi prime minister vows to liberate Fallujah.

  - 2004-11-06

  By Alex Rodriguez, Chicago Tribune Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News Nov. 6--BAGHDAD, Iraq -- U.S. fighter jets pummeled insurgent fortifications and weapons caches in Fallujah with five air strikes over a nine-hour span, the U.S. military said Friday, as Marines and Iraqi ...

  Tags: Baghdad, Government, leader, Leadership, Litigation, Tribune Co., U.S.

• Chicago Tribune Jim Mateja Column.

  - 2004-10-22

  By Jim Mateja, Chicago Tribune Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News Oct. 22--U.S. CHIEF WANTS TO BUILD VOLVOS HERE: If the Japanese, Koreans and Germans can build vehicles in the U.S., why not the Swedes? Vic Doolan, president and chief executive of Volvo Cars...

  Tags: BMW AG, FINANCE, Ford Motor Co., Tribune Co., U.S., Volvo

• First tribunal for Guantanamo detainee to begin.

  - 2004-08-23

  By E.A. Torriero, Chicago Tribune Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News Aug. 23--GUANTANAMO BAY, Cuba -- For more than a year, Australian David Hicks has lived in solitary confinement at Camp Echo in a cell the size of storage shed. Guards come by every...

  Tags: attorney, commission, Government, lawyer, Pentagon, SALES, terrorism, tribunal, Tribune Co., U.S.

• Iraqi security forces kill 13 suspected insurgents in gun battle.

  - 2004-07-26

  By Aamer Madhani, Chicago Tribune Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News Jul. 26--BAGHDAD -- Iraqi security forces killed 13 suspected insurgents Sunday after coming under a barrage of mortar and rocket-propelled grenade fire near the north-central town of Buhriz, according to U.S. military...

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