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...world, the larger destinies of mankind, which have lain aloof in newspapers and other neglected reading, enter like an earthquake into their lives." Tell me about it. But something more fundamental and revealing has happened since Sept. 11 as well. For many years--12 since the toppling of the Berlin Wall and the Soviet threat; 27 since Watergate, depending on how one is counting--the country has been living outside history. By this I mean living not only with little regard for the larger destinies of mankind but also outside the stories, lessons and issues that locate a people within...
...with Khrushchev, asked me to dinner in Palm Beach. After daiquiris and Frank Sinatra records on the patio, his three guests and I gathered around the table for fish-in-a-bag, a White House recipe. Between lusty bites, Kennedy told the story of Khrushchev's anger over West Berlin, the island of freedom in the Soviet empire's East Germany. "We have a bustling communist enclave just four blocks from the White House," I noted, meaning the Soviet embassy. Kennedy paused, fork between plate and mouth, and said, "You know, they have an atom bomb on the third floor...
...from out of town/ But I'm down by law and I know my way around"). Even beyond the biggies, it?s hard to think of another city that has inspired as many classic tunes - there?s a whole songbook for almost every major street, avenue and neighborhood. Irving Berlin, the man who wrote "God Bless America" also wrote "Harlem on My Mind." George M. Cohan captured the energy of the Great White Way with "Give My Regards to Broadway." (There?s also "On Broadway," and numerous other homages to the area). When it comes to the Big Apple, even...
...progress over the past couple of weeks has taken place overseas. From its sprawling Special Information and Operations Center in Washington, the FBI coordinates the work of its 56 domestic and more than 30 foreign offices, which have rarely been busier. About 15 German-speaking FBI agents are in Berlin and Hamburg assisting roughly 400 members of German law enforcement working the case. This close cooperation with overseas investigators has produced some of the best leads so far. For example, foreign law-enforcement agencies have given U.S. officials access to prisoners connected with al-Qaeda. Some of these inmates have...
...could kill everyone within a mile of impact. The Nazis were also experimenting with rockets launched from submarines, the idea being to send wolf packs to surface off New York City and reduce it to rubble. That apocalypse remained on the drawing board, and the Allies pulverized Dresden, Hamburg, Berlin and other German cities...