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...weighing the destruction from last week's terrorist attacks, psychologists were similarly beginning to estimate just what the emotional cost might be. Around the country, normally well-adjusted people have found themselves jumping at shadows, avoiding crowds, giving in to little rituals (take the subway to work but the bus home in the evening) that provide not a jot of real protection but somehow offer them an irrational reassurance that if another plane comes screaming out of the sky, maybe it won't be coming for them or their loved ones...
...best things we can do - but when American shores are smoldering still, Bush must have realized that more couldn't hurt. Be calm, not scared; be tolerant, not blind; be generous, not selfish; be patient, patient, patient, at airports and skyscrapers and landmarks and hotels and traffic stops and bus stops and train stations and anywhere else it is possible to imagine a public vulnerability, which of course is everywhere...
...identities have been fused in the heat of battle. I am no longer safe, and as an American and as a Jew I have a single enemy. It is no accident that one of the pilots who flew passenger jets into crowded office towers was wanted for a bus bombing in Israel 16 years...
...Villagers from Kada, near the border town of Betun, claim that a bus driver working for militia leader Olivio Mendoza Moruk bashed two local boys last September. In response, angry villagers killed Moruk. Blaming the U.N. High Commissioner for Refugees, Moruk's confederates then descended on the UNHCR compound in Atambua, butchering three workers; blood still stains the ransacked office. Igidio Manek, who seized a teenage girl at Suai as a war prize, continued his half-brother Olivio's businesses until he was arrested last month for corruption. "Militiamen are greedy criminals," says a senior Indonesian police officer...
...belief. To reach school they had to run a gauntlet of abuse from their Protestant neighbors that began with insults and spit and escalated within days to bricks and blast bombs. Scores of police and soldiers were injured protecting the children. As the chaos spread, a Protestant school bus was stoned and a Catholic motorist - apparently reacting to stone-throwing attacks - struck and killed a Protestant teenager. "It will be an eye for an eye," said a friend of the dead boy's family. "There is no point in telling lies about...