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COMMENTS: Posthumous Graduates
A story that attracted saturation headlines for an entire week--and then disappeared as suddenly as it had erupted--received a follow-up as all three networks sent reporters to the Virginia Tech campus for graduation ceremonies. The nine graduate students slain by their suicidal fellow student Seung-Hui Cho were given honorary degrees; the dead undergraduates will get theirs at the weekend. The theme was bittersweet: "as much silence as laughter, as many tears as smiles," was how NBC's Michelle Kosinski put it; CBS' Sharyn Alfonsi called it "a day of contrasts, somber at one moment, celebratory the next." And ABC's David Kerley (subscription required) heard Pomp & Circumstance "being tempered by painful memories."
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