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...alone" as she walked down the hall toward him. As she tried to reach her daughters, mother and husband, she was struck by the fact that she was watching, with Senator Kennedy, the worst tragedy since his brother John was assassinated. Together they went to the Caucus Room to calm the press. Kennedy says, "You take the measure of a person at a time like that. She is steady, assured, elegant." That night, she and her husband were finally in their own bed after hours at a secure location when a panting Secret Service agent burst into the room, saying...
...still don't know the truth," said Thomas' mother, Angela Leisure. "I still have no satisfaction." Leisure has filed wrongful-death and civil rights suits naming the police and Roach. Scattered violence followed the verdict, and Mayor Charlie Luken imposed a curfew. But the city has largely remained calm...
...Calm, but not serene. Roach was one of three white officers recently acquitted of crimes against black men killed in confrontations with Cincinnati cops--outcomes that did nothing to heal the city's racial rifts. "You've got a lot of African Americans who won't give the officers a chance to change, and you have a lot of officers who won't let African Americans change. How do you bridge that gap?" asks Walter White, an African-American resident...
...Rudy Giuliani's performance elicited enthusiasm extending far beyond New York's borders from readers who saw "a modern-day Churchill" ; "a true leader. Calm, cool, and collected" who "soothed the country when we needed it most." Once wary of Rudy's town, Americans "all became New Yorkers that day. He was our mayor." Several opined that "he even outshone our president in that he put his personal safety aside and jumped right in." A number of you recalled the mayor's personal setbacks prior to the event ("Enduring personal disgrace, prostate cancer, a terrorist attack of catastrophic proportion...
...those displaced by Sept. 11 or any other part of the economic downturn that has hit New York City so hard. Less traffic means cab drivers will make more money working shorter shifts. (Mike, we may want to switch temporarily to a "zone" fare system to keep everybody calm until the market forces settle...