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...aftermath produced astonishing side-by-side images of heroism and destruction, capping a year full of truly unforgettable photos. Our readers seem to agree; by far the most popular feature on TIME.com in the three months since the Sept. 11 attacks has been "Shattered," James Nachtwey's devastating photo essay of ground zero on that day. Some 1.5 million people saw it the week of 9/11, and an average of 200,000 have looked at it every week since. But 2001 was a year that produced dozens of other memorable moments--Barry Bonds setting the home run record, the Gary...
...This gives her remoteness: she doesn't look back at you or acknowledge your gaze in any way. She is on display in all her finery, in scarlet velvet or cloth of gold, in brocade and pearls--an icon of marital success and faithfulness. (The catalog has an excellent essay by Roberta Landini and Mary Bulgarella on the arcane intricacies of status and ladies' fashion in 15th century Florence.) Her existence as a silhouette, an untouchable presence--or rather, apparition--reinforces the idea of virtue. So does the purity of line required by profile...
Relying on pleasure as a standard of judgment, Hickey has endorsed without shame some of the great middlebrow passions of the past century, from Liberace to Perry Mason. His essay on Siegfried and Roy, the illusionists who make whole pachyderms dematerialize, is the best meditation on a pop-culture subgenre since Susan Sontag met Godzilla. He is suspicious of art that claims to transmit transcendent truths. Jackson Pollock wanted his spattered canvases to represent universal psychic turmoils. Hickey loves them but says they are better regarded as freedom made visible. "They stand as permission for certain kinds of human behavior...
When I saw the photograph of the smiling Afghan women with their uncovered faces in the sun [PHOTO ESSAY, Nov. 26], I knew that America and its allies had done the right thing. Whatever happens later politically, the women and the men in those pictures are happier now than they were before. While it's problematic to say "God bless America" and praise the U.S., we may say, "God bless the power that stands against wrong and stands up for right." MISOOK KIM Brussels...
Charles Krauthammer fears that a trial of al-Qaeda terrorists in a U.S. or world court would be a "legal circus" [ESSAY, Nov. 26]. Despite that risk, an open trial carries greater moral weight than a military tribunal, which is still associated with injustice and dictatorship in too much of the world. If Americans really want to persuade other countries to embrace our values of freedom and respect for human rights, we should welcome this opportunity to showcase how our democratic society puts into practice its belief in inalienable rights. PAM VINCENT Houston...