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...once vast differences did not matter anymore. (The attack even brought a reconciliation between Gore and Bill Clinton. The two sat up till dawn talking about it at Clinton's New York home before sharing a military transport plane to D.C.) Bush then traveled to ground zero in downtown Manhattan. He picked up a bullhorn, slung his arm around one rescue worker and spoke to the others--and to the world--with a grace that was both convincing and, somehow, unmistakably American. "The people who knocked down these buildings," he said, "are going to hear all of us soon...
Closing time in downtown Boston, post-clubbing: Exiting the Roxy, I notice a black limo passing. Four small American flags flutter on the vehicle—ambassadorial style. Drunk men peer out of its darkened windows, waving 40s of malt liquor in hand and yelling, “Go America! Go America! Go America!” All the party people, standing on a sidewalk still wet from rain, reward this chant with a tipsy round of applause...
...Saudi Arabian man was stabbed in downtown Boston in the early hours of Sunday morning, in what Boston Police Department (BPD) say may be a hate crime...
...been planning to write about how things have changed in the new world order post September 11. But instead, I'm reading books on Islam, consulting obscure publications like Jane's Defense Weekly. I've become familiar with Humvees now that they are all over downtown; there's one on every corner, and I've seen an M- 16 up close, now that armed guards at the reservoir a few blocks away carry them. I call members of Congress to see what they know. And I clean...
...Arabic Media Internet Network, were “buried under rubble while sitting outside a grocery store in the street.” The scene of “rubble and twisted metal” that the journalist describes is painfully reminiscent of the larger chaos of downtown New York today...