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...rescue effort had not stopped, even as it grew more dangerous. Lower Manhattan was a sharp steel forest where volunteers and fire fighters dug around the clock without rest. Doctors at St. Vincent's Hospital told of the fire fighter who had to carry out the decapitated body of his captain. The search dogs were overwhelmed; there was just too much flesh to smell. One emerged with a torn, blackened teddy bear in its mouth. Rescuers found the bodies of airline passengers strapped in their seats, a flight attendant with her hands bound. Doctors at the triage stations grieved that...
...stock of where we are. It’s a cynical view, but Hollywood and the entertainment industry are driven solely by profits. While Collateral Damage and Big Trouble are being postponed indefinitely because of their terrorism themed plots, other films are simply being postponed because with around-the-clock news coverage of the past week’s events, publicists haven’t been able to market their films properly on television. The severe evilness of last week’s atrocity has forced the entertainment industry into uncharted territory–and before industry standards return...
...There may be a case for letting airlines fail - as most of us remember from the past year, there are too many planes flying out of too few airports as it is - but with the global economy staring down the tarmac at a U.S.-led synchronized recession, the clock is ticking. As long as half as many fights are taking off with half as many passengers, nobody is making money - not airlines, not hotels, not casinos, not ski lodges or golf resorts. And how long can the American Way get by on pizza and a movie...
...rhetoric of some of our leaders has been encouraging. In his first address to New Yorkers after the bombing, Mayor Rudolph Giuliani urged Americans not to single out anyone because of religion, race or ethnic origin and pledged around-the-clock security for neighborhood mosques...
...Galt do when the President asked her to marry him? She fell out of bed." Their marriage was "the greatest love story of the modern presidency," Marton writes, her opinion bolstered by the collection of 250 eloquent, if sometimes syrupy, love letters from which she quotes liberally. "The clock is striking midnight and I must go to bed," Edith wrote in the spring of 1915 during their intense courtship. "A fond and very tender kiss my precious Woodrow before we put out the light--and I feel your dear arms fold around...