Word: fallen
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Crisis has a way of pulling people together, of wiping away silly disputes, and the Bush foreign policy team has fallen more quickly into line than many thought possible just six weeks ago. Differences between the State Department and the Pentagon still spill into the newspapers, but the terror attacks have sent everyone on the foreign policy squad back to his or her strongest position and turned the group into a team. The need to build a coalition has vindicated Secretary of State Colin Powell, whose taste for multilateral solutions had made him the odd man out among the Bushies...
...World War II. I will follow their example. On Sept. 11, we were given lessons in courage and heroic love. I will take them as examples. Those who are working in the rubble teach us daily lessons in true grit. I will learn them. In the name of the fallen, I will walk justly, fear no evil and continue to sing America's songs. JUDITH P. AUSTIN Arlington...
...other solutions the College could implement tomorrow. Many of these quick fixes are familiar; their simplicity has led students to advocate them for years. But Harvard is a place where old traditions die hard even if there is no reason to maintain them, and student voices have too often fallen upon deaf ears. If the College is dedicated to the goal of building a vibrant community, it should begin making improvements—both small and large—right...
...families of some victims are getting far less than others. Charities dedicated to fallen rescue workers have received some $46 million in donations that will supplement what families of New York City police and fire fighters will get from the government--$150,000 in federal funds, $25,000 from the mayor's office, a full-salary pension and health insurance for spouses for life. In contrast, families of kitchen workers at Windows on the World will get $15,000 in life insurance and union health benefits through November...
...planes hit, the towers burned and in an instant they were gone, reduced to a steel and concrete graveyard. From the wreckage, a cloud of smoke and ash rose ever higher and farther until it erased a vista once anchored by the fallen Twin Towers. Three weeks later, the physical cloud has dissipated, but a metaphoric one remains, and not only in New York City. This cloud hangs heavy across the world, where nonstop diplomacy, ultimatums and the rhetoric of war have redefined priorities, created societal and religious fissures and forced nations to choose sides unequivocally...