Steve Almond
LAST WEEK'S massacre at Virginia Tech, in which a student named Seung-Hui Cho killed 32 people, then took his own life, set off a predictable frenzy of media coverage. For a full week -- while bodies of presumably less divine origin piled up in Iraq and elsewhere -- America threw itself an elaborate, televised wake. (Full article: 694 words)
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