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...Osama. Sipping cappuccinos and downing milk shakes, they admit to mixed feelings about last month's devastating attacks on the U.S. because of the innocent lives that were taken. They even wonder whether it was really Osama who did it ("I hope that it was," says one). Mostly they express glee that the strikes made the U.S. pay a price for what they see as arrogant meddling in the Middle East, particularly in supporting Israel against the Palestinians...
...more than ever, we need art to express our hopes and fears. In the months and years ahead, can we expect a Guernica, the masterpiece Picasso painted after an air attack killed 1,600 people during the Spanish Civil War? Will a movement rise from these horrors, as Modernism arose after World War I? With artists like the ones on the following pages, anything is possible...
Nancy Gibbs put words to the feelings many of us have not been able to express adequately [MOURNING IN AMERICA, Sept. 24]. She captured our raw emotions, our evolving realization that the comfortable life we had been accustomed to changed forever on that fateful Tuesday. I don't want to take a moment or a person in my life for granted. I wrote a note to a cousin I haven't seen in years, thanking him for the job he does every day as a fireman. Bless you, Nancy, for stating so eloquently what we have been groping...
...children of desperation; they come from countries where political struggle through peaceful means is futile. In many Muslim countries, political dissent is simply illegal. Yet, year by year, the size of the educated class and the number of young professionals continue to increase. These people need space to express their political and social concerns. But state control is total, leaving no room for civil society to grow...
...Republican from Alabama, I was shocked to hear Gore so eloquently express views that I share with regard to possible U.S. responses to the recent terrorist acts. It is precisely because I hold human life so dear—not for revenge or out of fear—that I would support and be willing to die for a cause that would prevent senseless deaths like those on Sept. 11. Gore flatly rejected the No-War-At-All-Costs attitude aired since the attacks and said there has never been a more obvious time for a swift, precise military strike...