Word: fallen
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...love Rudy. In this I'm not alone. He walks around the city as godlike as a mortal can be. The families of the fallen cling to him. Workers pulling grim double shifts at ground zero get a second wind when he visits. At opening night at the Metropolitan Opera, he gets an ovation Pavarotti would envy. He brings David Letterman to tears and a Saturday Night Live audience to life, telling people it's O.K. to laugh again...
...aspirin and apples in the temporary commissary outside his office: I wanted to hug him. But that's not the same as handing him an extra four years. As for an extra three months, I wonder if holding the city together at a time when it could have fallen apart doesn't merit the extended time, not as a gift to him but as a gift...
...praising public servants, Gore shared the well-publicized story of the Rev. Mychal F. Judge, a New York City friar who was killed by falling debris while administering the last rites to a fallen rescue worker outside the World Trade Center. Judge served as the chaplain for several New York City fire departments, and received the first registered death certificate stemming from the attacks...
...today?s contemporary songs are already being reinterpreted by listeners looking for some solace in music. Sometime the artists themselves are doing the repurposing. Springsteen kicked off the recent telethon ?America: A Tribute to Heroes? with the song ?My City of Ruins.? "This is a prayer for our fallen brothers and sisters," Springsteen said before launching into the song. The song?s imagery of waste and destruction, and its gospelly chorus of ?C?mon rise up!? made it seem as if it was specifically written about the recent attacks. It was actually composed about Springsteen?s hometown in New Jersey...
...most compelling evidence that cell phones inhabit the social and cultural locus that cigarettes once did is that, quite literally, one has replaced the other. While cigarettes have fallen into relative disuse, cell phones in the U.S alone have risen from 16 million users in 1994 to 110 million users in 2000. Indeed, a study in the British Medical Journal reports that declines in smoking are concomitant with the rise in cell phones. This seems intuitive given their mutually exclusive cost, that they both occupy the hands, etc. The researchers also note rather wittily that “both objects...