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There are many reasons not to attack Iraq, Chomsky said. He said a war could “ignite terrorist attacks?? and “spawn a new generation of terrorists...
Moments of silence have been so widely observed in the wake of Sept. 11—newspapers from the Anchorage Daily News to the Greensboro (N.C.) News & Record recorded area moments of silence on the first anniversary of the attacks??that it is instructive to investigate the origins of the phrase. The first recorded use of “moment of silence,” the Oxford English Dictionary notes, was in 1942, when the American Sociological Review resolved to “express our regret and honor their memory by rising and preserving a moment of silence...
...execution. For on Sept. 11, each individual symbolized an undifferentiated “America,” each a symbol of the American government. The victims’ particular lives were renounced. Further, the attackers exploited the value we give to the individual. They knew that a few localized attacks??on individuals—would bring our whole country, united, to its knees...
Ceremonies and prayer services have occurred throughout the New York region all week long, including a ceremony held Monday in Battery Park to unveil 25 new names—those of New York Police Department (NYPD) officers lost during last year’s attacks??engraved on a police memorial there. There was also a candlelight vigil held in Nassau County, Long Island, on Monday night, to remember the 300 Nassau County residents who never returned home from work on Sept...
...diversity of Harvard’s student body—which includes some who were personally impacted by the attacks??also makes spending the anniversary here more meaningful, Christopher R. Sarokhan ’06 added...