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...Many of my friends have stopped reading about the tragedy, or are trying to keep it at arm's length. I'm still reading everything I can about it. I'm not sure why. I don't find Barry Bonds' quest for the homerun record diverting in the least, and that's not (just) because it?s Barry Bonds. I didn't watch any football over the weekend, and since the good folks here at Time.com aren't forcing me to do my Monday morning sports gig here, but are giving me dispensation to write these occasional updates on life...
...precious they were stolen. Yet it was clear that people ached to live bigger lives, to find some way to be a brave and generous part of what most of us were consigned to watch on television. In Napa Valley a four-year-old boy with only one arm cleaned his family's house and took his dollar in pocket money down to the local fire brigade to send to the fire fighters in New York. A five-year-old girl in Audubon, N.J., renamed all her dolls George Bush. An Air Force major who had survived the Pentagon attack...
...leaders in years ... The pair's organizational and diplomatic skills have been strikingly evident since the earliest moments of Desert Shield, which began only a few hours after Iraqi tanks rolled into Kuwait on Aug. 2. Early the next morning, Cheney tucked a top-secret briefing file under his arm and walked to the small, heavily guarded Current Situation Room on the second floor of the Pentagon. Powell was waiting there for him. Amid the maze of projection screens, television monitors and colored telephones, they drafted the advice on military responses Cheney would offer Bush [Sr.]: the U.S. could...
...started to cry and I put my arm around her and said, ‘You don’t have to listen to him,’ Davis said. “But the sergeant was like, ‘Don’t make me get out of this car! I could kick your [expletive] ass! All you BC kids are the same...
...some tears, and that got to him. I know that I could not have looked up at the woman in the gallery, the wife of the man who tried to thwart a hijacker, without breaking up. What I can do these days is kind of put my arm around him from hundreds of miles away...