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...attack even brought a reconciliation between Gore and Bill Clinton. The two sat up till dawn talking about it at Clinton's New York home before sharing a military transport plane to D.C.) Bush then traveled to ground zero in downtown Manhattan. He picked up a bullhorn, slung his arm around one rescue worker and spoke to the others--and to the world--with a grace that was both convincing and, somehow, unmistakably American. "The people who knocked down these buildings," he said, "are going to hear all of us soon." He didn't insist that he was resolute...
There's an arm or a foot or sometimes just a tooth, and they put that tooth in a bag. And they will match that tooth to a victim, and it will be placed in a coffin because it is a human being, or at least part of a human being, and human beings bury their dead. So instead of using backhoes and bulldozers to clear the remnants of the World Trade Center, hundreds of men scoop out the remains with their hands. They put them in 5-gal. buckets and pass them hand to hand down...
They are sorting through what used to be two 110-story buildings--more than 2 billion lbs. of steel and glass and concrete--compressed into a mound nine stories high. A five-fingered grapple fixed to the end of a 40-ft. metal arm peels back each layer, gently removing crisscrossed pillars piled like giant pickup sticks. Next welders climb up with acetylene torches to cut through the metal until they find a void, or pocket of air. Then they bring in the buckets...
...Death to Americans" shouted the mullah, his right arm punching the air. "Death to Americans" responded the crowd of several thousand men, gathered in the narrow streets of the Qissa Khawani bazaar in Pakistan's northwestern city of Peshawar after Friday prayers. They had congregated outside the mosque to listen to speakers denounce the U.S. and its war against terrorism. At the back of the crowd a man raised a straw effigy of President Bush, set it alight, and then others flailed at the burning straw with sticks...
...political reputation of graduates from Deobandi schools that has led some governments in the region to keep the Deobandi movement at arm's length. India refuses to grant visas to students from abroad to study at Dar-ul-uloom, fearful that another leader like the Taliban's Mullah Omar might emerge in one of its neighbors. But the government has no problems opening immigration doors to foreign students who wish to study at the country's other great center of Islamic scholarship and revival - Aligarh Muslim University...