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...aftermath of 9/11, Muslim-Americans faced widespread suspicion as the attacks launched by the terrorist group Al-Qaeda were seen as representative of Islam...
...Where's the Story? Going by the cover of your "Haiti: The Aftermath" issue, I was looking forward to seeing numerous pictures of the impact of the disaster [Feb. 8]. However, I was surprised to see only a short article and four pictures alongside more needless attention devoted to U.S. President. TIME needs to be careful and avoid offering its readers what seems tantamount to false advertising. Neil McKenzie, CHRISTCHURCH, NEW ZEALAND...
...What Hanks absorbed from those caffeinated reading bouts informs The Pacific, which starts with the aftermath of Pearl Harbor and moves straight into the murderous Guadalcanal campaign (August 1942 to February 1943), depicting the harrowing details right down to the dysentery and malaria. Cameras zoom down vulture-like on maps of flyspeck islands; the contrivance provides a nautical atlas for globe-challenged viewers. The true-life stories of Colonel Lewis "Chesty" Puller and Gunnery Sergeant John Basilone are incorporated into the narrative's bloodstream. Eight of its 10 hours rain valor worthy of a Medal of Honor. (If the roughly...
...Chang-Rae Lee’s “The Surrendered,” such a plight of insatiable need afflicts Hector Brennan and June Singer, war survivors whose lives are unwillingly but unavoidably entwined by the aftermath of the Korean War. Fundamentally a contemporary war novel, “The Surrendered” derives its plot from a scrutiny of the most basic of human experiences—love and conflict. Though beleaguered with a requisite love triangle and sometimes seized by paroxysms of sentiment, the novel is a paradigm of narrative layering—a finely crafted story...
Taviera Espinoza, 28, who was on vacation in Concepción and had managed to evacuate on a Hercules transport plane, told TIME that she and her family fled their rental home after the earthquake because they feared a tsunami. They came back to find the aftermath of looting. "When we returned, the house was empty," she said. "They stole everything: TV, food. Everything...