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...Whatever Rice was feeling on the flight back couldn't be seen in her face or body language. Once ensconced in her spacious cabin, she changed into a teal warmup suit and worked throughout the 14-hour trip home. She and her most trusted key advisors-Assistant Secretary of State David Welch and National Security Council democracy-agenda chief Elliott Abrams - communicated constantly with Washington, London, Paris and other key players via the Air Force plane's secure phone or by cell phone and text-messaging devices during a refueling stop in Ireland...
...colonel, 42, a steely aviator in a flight suit, says he doesn't prevent his men from watching the scenes of destruction wrought by Israeli warplanes in Lebanon, even for the sake of morale. "I can't order them ?Don't watch TV.' But my men know they're doing the right thing.' He says that from the first day his airmen enter flight training school, they're taught that "they have massive destructive power in their hands." He adds, "They're very conscious of this...
...story of two police officers who were among the last survivors to be pulled out. United 93 grossed about $43 million worldwide, a respectable sum for a $15 million movie about the passengers who brought down a plane before hijackers could crash it. In January the cable movie Flight 93 drew A&E's highest ratings ever...
...instead of stories that reflect how 9/11 changed us, we have stories that help us flatter ourselves into believing that it did. The Flight 93 movies and World Trade Center, not to take anything away from them, cherry-picked the few triumphant stories of 9/11. They let us see it as a day when Americans tapped their strength, transformed and sacrificed--whether you and I, munching our Raisinets in the audience...
...obsessed with protocol and covering their backsides and the best intentions stymied by bureaucracy, fate and the complexity of the target. One of the few things that go right is the foiling of the millennium bombing plot in 1999, and that gets only a few minutes; the rebellion on Flight 93, maybe a minute...