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...along for "camera practice." He ended up shooting inside hell, racing with the fire fighters downtown and into the lobby of the tower, as debris rained outside the broken windows, workers ran for the exits, and the south tower collapsed, turning a sunny morning into a midnight snowstorm of ash...
...Dennis Bock's well-wrought first novel The Ash Garden (Knopf; 281 pages) cuts through the moral debates surrounding the dropping of the atomic bomb on Japan and paints a humane, detailed tableau of its fallout on both its American creators and those whom it was sent to destroy. Setting fictional characters against a historical landscape, the Canadian author traces the life of Anton B?ll, a German scientist who was a star of the Manhattan Project, as his journey entwines with that of Emiko Amai, a little girl from Hiroshima who lost her face to the world's first atomic...
...Ash Garden may not be a page-turner, but Bock's prose lures the reader along through smooth, sculpted sentences full of rich detail and subtle meditation. With patient intensity he weaves characters that are particularly relevant now, revealing how victor and vanquished, both burned by the shock waves of horrific events, must both become survivors...
KERIK: Somebody runs in and yells, "Hit the deck!" As the guy swings the door open and yells that, I see windows shattering in the hallway outside. It feels like an earthquake. All of a sudden there's this gush of black smoke and ash and debris, and it just pours into the room. Some people jump under the desks. We start pushing the mayor to the back...
...Egyptian Foreign Minister who resigned at Camp David in the wake of the historical peace accords between Israel and Egypt in 1978; in Cairo. Kamel was the second Egyptian Foreign Minister to resign in a period of a year, disagreeing with President Anwar Sadat's policies. DIED. MARY KAY ASH, 83, founder of the cosmetics company Mary Kay Inc. and one of the most influential women in American business; in Dallas. Ash created an award system in which she gave deserving saleswomen pink Cadillacs. DIED. MARY WHITEHOUSE, 91, schoolteacher turned feisty antipornography lobbyist; in Colchester, England. Whitehouse created the Clean...