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...While Harrison was able to survive the pressures of being a Beatle and an assault by a maniac, he couldn't beat cancer. But he made the passage to death easier for himself by believing so passionately for so long in a life after this one. Said his old friend Mia Farrow last week: "One of the things that was so inspiring was his lifelong search to know his God. And if God exists, I don't doubt that George has a place near him. " If she's right, Harrison is happy. He may have been scared of the adoring...
...reported that the number of air travelers nationwide cancelling flights returning home for the Thanksgiving holiday was much higher than average. Although not yet certain, the same trend might well be expected for the upcoming Christmas holiday. As sincerely as our nation pledged in September to ignore the attempted assault of terrorism on the American spirit and the way of life this spirit sustains, these numbers show that it’s still difficult for some to board a 747 without images of armed hijackers, diverted travel routes and crumbling towers crossing their minds. Even several months after the fact...
...loss of confidence in air travel is no doubt what Osama bin Laden had in store for us. His attacks were designed to undermine our confidence by doing the unthinkable. While our loss of confidence is intangible, this feeling of insecurity gives bin Laden an upper hand in his assault on Americanism...
...America to react to his assault in such a way as to deny him this small victory is to ask us to deny our normal impulse to feel apprehension and wariness. Despite our desire to strike back, the return to normality that President George W. Bush advocated in September cannot preclude these all-too-human impulses...
...Laden’s book, we may have lost the upper hand, but then again, his is a book that preaches destruction, revenge and wholesale slaughter. His was an assault that dictated its own ghastly terms, that wrote its own rules of war. In our own book of rules, though, the unthinkable is sometimes unpreventable, apprehension is sometimes inevitable and our loss of confidence in air travel is sometimes normal...