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When I woke that Tuesday morning, I had checked The New York Times online at about 9:30 a.m. The web page featured a little image of the Trade Towers in the upper right hand corner. A stripe of orange and black interrupted the otherwise calm, monolithic facade. A small caption said that a plane of unidentified size had crashed into one of the towers. Though I found this surprising, I figured it was another case of an inexperienced pilot losing control of a two-seater. I threw on some clothes and rushed to breakfast...
Sadly, it does not shock me that many Americans were not brought to tears. In the past, we have remained calm as thousands died in mass genocide in the Balkans and Africa. Yet, where has been our fundamental love, not for principle, but for humanity itself? Shouldn’t that love stir us in times like these, softening our hearts of their outrage and disgust, so that we may know the depths of our shared sorrow...
...Following the erruption of civil war in this West African, diamond-rich country, rebels gained control of the United Nations-occupied capital, Freetown, where Edgar and his family lived. “I had to pack my whole life into two suitcases,” Edgar recalls in a calm, matter-of-fact tone...
...rest of my roommates were pretty calm, stayed put, and were teasing me for running away and leaving them here,” Clark said...
...aides deny there is U.S. pressure, and even if there is U.S. pressure, he's not really responding to it. So it's a moot point - if the pressure is there, then until now it hasn't been working. Sharon is still holding out for his 48 hours of calm before allowing the meeting, but attacks are continuing. Also, later this week is the first year's anniversary of the current intifada, and major demonstrations are planned in every Palestinian town. Those demonstrations will, in all likelihood, lead to clashes with the Israelis, and more deaths. There are also strong...