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                <text>Adriana Seagle</text>
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                <text>Joseph (Joe) Librescu, the son of Liviu Librescu, the teacher who protected his students at the cost of his own life in the Virgina Tech killing spree yesterday, sent a heart-felt message to all Hotnews.ro readers.&lt;br /&gt;&#13;
"I am professor Librescu&amp;#39;s son and I want to thank all those who wrote such beautiful notes about him", the letter reads.&#13;
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"Even though he left the country for a long time, he never forgot its beauty. We were supposed to meet in Predeal this summer, for a family reunion.&#13;
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Once again I want to thank you for all the beautiful things you wrote about him".&#13;
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Professor Liviu Librescu&amp;#39;s gesture was widely commented on in the Romanian and international media.&#13;
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First announced on the &lt;a href="http://www.esm.vt.edu/"&gt;Virginia Tech official site&lt;/A&gt;, the story soon reached the &lt;a href="http://english.hotnews.ro/International-media-honors-Romanian-born-professor-killed-in-Virginia-massacre-articol_44738.htm""&gt;HotNews.ro English version&lt;/A&gt;, and was quoted by the blogs at the &lt;a href="http://www.claremont.org/blogs/blogid.5193/blog_detail.asp"&gt;Claremont Institute for the Study of Statemanship and Political Philosphy&lt;/A&gt;.&#13;
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An &lt;a href="http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/04/17/AR2007041700626.html?nav=hcmodule"&gt;Associated Press&lt;/A&gt; article was almost instantly quoted by all international media. &lt;a href="http://edition.cnn.com/2007/US/04/17/vtech.shooting.victims/index.html"&gt;CNN&lt;/A&gt;, &lt;a href="http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/world/us_and_americas/article1665503.ece"&gt;The Times&lt;/A&gt;, &lt;a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2007/04/17/us/17victims.html?_r=1&amp;oref=slogin"&gt;The New York Times&lt;/A&gt; and &lt;a href="http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/849070.html"&gt;Haaretz&lt;/A&gt; are just a few of the TV stations and newspapers that brought an hommage to the lost professor.&#13;
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Romanian media ware just as present as the international ones:&lt;br /&gt;&#13;
"Romanian hero in mourning America", &lt;a href="http://www.evz.ro/"&gt;Evenimentul Zilei&lt;/A&gt; reads on the first page; "The Hero", is the simple and powerful title in &lt;a href="http://www.jurnalul.ro/articol_76983/eroul.html"&gt;Jurnalul National&lt;/A&gt;. "Romanian hero at Virginia Tech", reads &lt;a href="http://www.cotidianul.ro/"&gt;Cotidianul&lt;/A&gt;. "Romania origin hero", is the headline in &lt;a href="http://www.romanialibera.ro/a92706/un-erou-originar-din-romania.html"&gt;Romania Libera&lt;/A&gt; and so on.&#13;
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&lt;a href="http://www.hotnews.ro/"&gt;HotNews.ro&lt;/a&gt;, Apr 18, 2007&#13;
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Original Source: &lt;a href="http://english.hotnews.ro/Hero-Librescu%27s-son-addresses-Hotnews.ro-readers-articol_44751.htm"&gt;http://english.hotnews.ro/Hero-Librescu%27s-son-addresses-Hotnews.ro-readers-articol_44751.htm&lt;/a&gt;&#13;
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                <text>Cristian Pantazi (cristian.pantazi@hotnews.ro)</text>
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