Thursday, April 19, 2007
Across cultures and borders, families of shooting victims are united in grief - A.P.
... Professors, too, were drawn from around the world. Liviu Librescu, 76, survived the Holocaust, Cold War repression in Romania and the Israeli-Palestinian conflict before arriving in Blacksburg, Va., as an internationally recognized scholar.
Witnesses said Librescu was shot while holding his classroom door closed so that his students could escape through a window. ...
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[There's a more detailed article about Prof. Librescu in the N.Y. Times: Professor’s Violent Death Came Where He Sought Peace]
... Professors, too, were drawn from around the world. Liviu Librescu, 76, survived the Holocaust, Cold War repression in Romania and the Israeli-Palestinian conflict before arriving in Blacksburg, Va., as an internationally recognized scholar.
Witnesses said Librescu was shot while holding his classroom door closed so that his students could escape through a window. ...
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[There's a more detailed article about Prof. Librescu in the N.Y. Times: Professor’s Violent Death Came Where He Sought Peace]
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