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...news footage of rejoicing crowds escorting proud mothers to the funerals of teenage sons—youths killed at their own hands in suicidal acts of terror—we have steadfastly refused to believe that there are communities in which human lives are held as cheaply as the breath with which one whispers the names of the deceased...
...care about at this precise moment, all I can think to listen for over the drone of the newscaster’s voice citing a death toll in the thousands, is the slight click on the other end of that damn phone, the slight catch before an intake of breath, and the sound of my mother, father or brother’s voice...
...have a watch, but I knew it was roughly 9 a.m. Some 50,000 people work in those buildings. How many of them had just sat down their computer, turned it on and were dialing to check their voice mail? I breathed a sigh of relief that I knew no one who worked in that building and quietly said a series of "Hail Marys" under my breath...
...pulled myself into a building. What building? I don't know. And I took a breath. I took two breaths. I was sure the building would be bombed. I looked for stairs. I kept thinking I needed clean air. I found a bathroom. I didn't realize I wanted water until it was there. Four men inside. Two fighting over the faucet. I shared the toilet with another man. We drank almost the whole bowl...
Colin Powell has the gift of presence. when he walks into a room, people sit up, straighten their ties, hold their breath in anticipation. And he dazzles them with his effortless command. The moment he set foot in the State Department last January, he was met with rapturous applause. When he paid a call in Beijing three months after a U.S. spy plane was forced to land on Hainan island, he coaxed a joke out of somber President Jiang Zemin and left the leadership beaming that he "respected" China. They returned the compliment with a long-awaited $2 billion order...