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...details are given and there isn’t any footage of buildings being blown up. In fact, there is almost no action at all. The show departed from its usual action-packed plotlines and dizzyingly quick camera movements in favor of a much more subdued pace. The bulk of the episode takes place in a single room. There has been a ‘crash’ or a security breach that calls for a lockdown on the whole West Wing. By chance, a group of high school students who have won the opportunity to participate in Presidential Classroom...
...Security at home: Federal and local officials continued to bulk up domestic security as the nation entered its fourth day on "high alert." Changes include increased police presence in major cities and at key tourist sites. Voicing his concern for public safety, President Bush chastised Congress for leaking strategic information, calling such disclosures "unacceptable." Wednesday morning, Congressional leaders met with the President to devise a mutually acceptable balance between information-sharing and necessary confidentiality...
...asserted a link between “a Harvard education and the progress of social justice,” calling on Harvard to expand opportunities for “service learning”—presumably at the expense of the non-service learning that currently constitutes the bulk of the school’s activities...
Luck, of course, played a massive role: 700 employees of Cantor Fitzgerald, which occupied floors above Morgan's, had no way of getting out. But many of Wall Street's brokerage houses and other firms were able to evacuate the bulk of their workers because of oft-repeated drills. Employees of the Japanese firm Mizuho had emergency kits with burn cream, "smoke hoods" and glow sticks strapped to the backs of their chairs...
...class decamps to the basement; the nervous kids only want to ask Josh questions about terrorism. And from here on out, for the bulk of the episode, class is in session for Professor Sorkin, who doesn't need to bother even with the scanty dramatic figleaves he usually knits together in order to deliver himself of soliloquys through his characters. Here, the kids just serve up one setup question after another - "Why are they trying to kill us?" "What do we do now?" - that allows for a series of well-meaning, well-expressed, but by now well-worn disquisitions...