April 27, 2007

33 Dead, but 26,000 Trying to Reclaim Their Lives

By ROBIN WILSON

DARK DAY IN BLACKSBURG

SCENES FROM A TRAGEDY

Last semester when Ross A. Alameddine came into Edward A. Weathers's professional-writing class at Virginia Tech, Mr. Alameddine issued a challenge: "I'm going to be either an English major, business minor, or a French major, business minor," he wrote in a note to the instructor the first day of class. "That decision depends on this class. No pressure."

Mr. Alameddine liked the course enough to declare English his major earlier

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