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...series. The first two issues, covered by TIME.comix, gave us Rehr's remarkable autobiographical account of the catastrophe as he experienced it from a few blocks away. Now, Rehr has followed that up with a fictional story, "Tribeca Sunset," which explores the relationship of four men in the aftermath of that red-letter day. Craig, Mac and Neil, three former New York art school chums, get together with Neil's brother Rob to attend Neil's gallery opening and meet his fianc?e. In the course of the weekend, they renew their bond in the way that...
...adds tremendously to the verisimilitude of the story.) The covers feature atmospheric, nearly depopulated "snapshots" of the city: a rainy Park Avenue looking south to Grand Central Station; Central Park's ice-skating rink with just a few dots of people on it. Throughout the story, the disaster's aftermath asserts itself on the lives and psyche of the characters. The story takes place during a snowy weekend, causing Mac to see swirling ash for a moment. Craig dreams of HAZMAT-suited real estate agents in SOHO. Neil has to keep the news on all the time because he says...
...Hwang grew up in a hardscrabble village in the Korean countryside and remembers eating tree bark and grass roots to survive in the aftermath of the Korean War. His father died when Hwang was five, and his mother owned three cows that she bred for calves. The money kept the family going?cowpats heated their home?and it was Hwang's job to care for the animals after school. He was the only one in his class to get past elementary school, and his mother hoped he could become the village scribe, the most prestigious local...
...limbo. A former Graduate School of Education (GSE) student from the Republic of Georgia, he was arrested for felony sexual assault in January 2002 when his accuser, an aquaintance, alleged that he had pulled her into his room and raped her. A visit to his jail cell in the aftermath by a Harvard official was appropriately curt: withdraw, his visitor told him, or face a worse punishment from the GSE’s version of the Ad Board, the Committee on Rights and Responsibilities, Zedginidze recalled...
...There is, first of all, the issue of our nuclear program, which is wildly popular in Pakistan. I would like to be able to say that I am opposed to the possession of nuclear weapons, by our state or any other. After all, I have seen photographs of the aftermath of the bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, and read the terrifying stories told by survivors. I am aware of the horrors this technology can bring. And I am aware of the resources consumed in our pursuit of nuclear bombs and missiles, resources that could have gone into much needed schools...