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...lesson plan could provide comfort for the thousands of New York schoolchildren who lost mothers and fathers in the World Trade Center attack. But teachers could not afford to be speechless when their grieving pupils returned to class. Some students needed surrogate parents, others just answers to the very questions vexing their teachers. Consequently, schools that in recent years have banished emotions and hugs as they have Bibles spent whole periods probing feelings. This swiftly became American history week, no matter what the syllabus said...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Tending The Wounds | 10/1/2001 | See Source »

...about CIA agents, and they'll be hard pressed to avoid opening wounds while staying plausible. A month ago, the talk about 24 was its gimmick of taking one season to show one day's events. Now it's about a too-close-for-comfort scene in the pilot, in which an assassin (out to kill a presidential candidate) blows up an airplane in flight. The explosion will be cut, but, says co-creator Robert Cochran, the story line will stay the same: "Our obligation is to treat this subject with realism and intelligence and as much insight...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: What's Entertainment Now? | 10/1/2001 | See Source »

Still, there are already signs that we are too culturally polyglot to turn back the clock out of a yearning for comfort. The cast of The Producers' singing God Bless America on Broadway was all the more defiant for its squareness. But there was also something strangely appropriate about MTV's playing Kid Rock's American Badass in honor of rescue workers on a special episode of the video-request show TRL: the video's star-spangled obscenity, its bikers and bikinis, was somehow a perfect riposte to an act of cultural-conservative terror ordered from within a land where...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: What's Entertainment Now? | 10/1/2001 | See Source »

Americans do not need much convincing that Osama bin Laden is to blame for the attacks on Washington and New York City. Which is fortunate, because we may never have the forensic comfort of a videotape or signed contract. Clear links are almost impossible to find in shady terrorist networks designed to have none...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Osama's Trail: Soft Evidence | 10/1/2001 | See Source »

Michael Douglas stars as Dr. Nathan Conrad, a devoted family man who has abandoned work in a New York mental hospital for the relative ease and comfort of a lucrative private practice. His gift for treating teenagers attracts the attention of Patrick Koster (Sean Bean), a sinister bank robber who kidnaps the psychiatrist’s daughter and holds her hostage while Conrad works with a deeply disturbed mental patient...

Author: By Nathan Burstein, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Mums the 'Word' | 9/28/2001 | See Source »

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