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...would be a mistake to confuse the reaction of the past weeks, a culture of mourning, with a long-term change. The public's current emotions are many--grief, anger, shame, helplessness--but we may look back on them as the simplest ones we experienced during this chapter of history. And our response has already been more complex than you might think. Some have predicted a return to light escapism. Video-rental stores reported a spike in comedy rentals. MGM expanded the comedy Legally Blonde onto 1,300 screens after movie houses began pleading for feel-good fare. But rentals...
...ReganBooks/HarperCollins planned to publish "The Lost Son: A Life in Pursuit of Justice" by New York City police commissioner Bernard Kerik, in November. But the tragedy at the World Trade Center mandated that a new chapter be added to the book. The publishing house is now rushing out the book for November 13, with the material embargoed until then. 60 Minutes and the Today Show are on board...
That opinion rests on the Koran's Chapter 60, Verse 8, which bids Islamic victors to "show [civilians] kindness and deal with them justly." In the Hadiths, or traditions of Muhammad, the Prophet commands, "Neither kill the old...nor children and babes nor the females," and is portrayed as appalled to discover a woman's corpse on a battlefield. Similar protections pertain to farmers and tradesmen. Even the slaughter of enemy soldiers is enjoined if no war has been declared. "It's basically the Geneva Convention," says Jamal Badawi, a well-known Islamic interpreter who teaches at St. Mary...
...cloning to the life of Jesus. A native of Louisiana and graduate of the University of Texas, she has tried other walks of life, including delivering pizza and running a computer magazine. Lisa's breadth of interests--and standard of excellence--came in handy for editing this week's chapter of America's Best, the third in our series on people at the top of their fields...
Indeed, while our previous chapter of America's Best focused on the steely intellectualism of science, our journalists found that this one had a powerful emotional component. When writer-reporter Josh Tyrangiel interviewed Duke basketball coach Mike Krzyzewski about influences on his life, he spoke tearfully about his mom, showing a rarely seen side of the indomitable Coach K. "I've watched his Duke teams physically and psychologically destroy my beloved Maryland Terrapins for years now," says Tyrangiel. "During the interview, I felt like I should be the one crying." Observes Beyer: "The thing that struck me as the most...