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...favor of a military response only as long as they can continue to sit comfortably in Cambridge, then one worries for the character of the student body. Certainly most students, and especially most Harvard students, don’t come to college with the intention of dying in a faraway land. But if they are not willing to take that chance, they cannot possibly justify asking others of the same age, but in less fortunate circumstances, to do the same thing...
High in the air, from inside the planes and skyscrapers where their final moments slipped away, dozens of victims spoke their last words to faraway people closest to their hearts. Some updated their mothers on developments, like seasoned correspondents calling in reports. A few asked husbands for advice, making vague, impossible requests. But almost all the calls, in the end, turned into love letters...
...those without power envy those who have it,” “men seek honor as well as riches.” Those among us who view bias as an absolute bar to objective judgment would shrink from making such universal claims on the residents of a faraway place and time. Yet the ease with which accusations of bias are made instead makes this pop psychology the highest authority...
...Chicago, Steve Bernard was huddled around the TV with colleagues on the 36th floor of Chicago's Sears Tower, shortly after 8 a.m., watching the smoke billowing from the World Trade Center after the first attack. When the second plane hit, bewilderment at a faraway spectacle turned into a much more personal, creeping panic. The Chicago staff of the Piper Jaffray investment firm suddenly redirected their gazes toward the windows, quietly searching for jets on their own horizon. The 110-story Sears Tower, even taller than the World Trade Center, is the tallest building in the U.S.; a vulnerable target...
...Chicago, Steve Bernard was huddled around the TV with colleagues on the 36th floor of Chicago's Sears Tower, shortly after 8 a.m., watching the smoke billowing from the World Trade Center after the first attack. When the second plane hit, bewilderment at a faraway spectacle turned into a much more personal, creeping panic. The Chicago staff of the Piper Jaffray investment firm suddenly redirected their gazes toward the windows, quietly searching for jets on their own horizon. The 110-story Sears Tower, even taller than the World Trade Center, is the tallest building in the U.S.; a vulnerable target...