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Committee members say they can’t predict what changes will be made to the square. Glazer said, however, that she cannot rule out the possibility that the committee will recommend far-reaching changes, such as shifting traffic flow...
...enormous charity funds raised after the attacks. Donations to those groups do funnel thousands of dollars to the victims' families--in particular, the families of fire fighters and police officers. But overall, the nearly $2 billion in charity money is chump change compared with the cash that will flow out of government coffers. There is no limit to the federal fund, but the tab is likely to be triple the size of the charity pot. And while charity funds are doled out to a vast pool of people, including businesses hurt by the attacks, the government money will go exclusively...
...9/11 victims, writer AMANDA RIPLEY looks at the impossible calculus of compensation: how courts put a dollar value on the loss of life, the ways that equation has evolved over the centuries, and how three families are coping. She found that, just as the money is beginning to flow, many of the victims' families are enraged by their awards. Talk with her on Tuesday...
Patriotism does not flow easily in Russia anymore. And if anyone has a right to shut his heart to Moscow, it is Slava Fetisov. The country's greatest hockey hero throughout the 1980s, Fetisov, 43, won two gold Olympic medals and one silver, seven world championships and the Order of Lenin. Yet Fetisov spent the late '80s being systematically harassed by his government. After being denied, year after year, the right to play in the National Hockey League as he had been promised, Fetisov decided to sue the U.S.S.R. for his freedom...
...That notification comes from middlemen like Mat, who are present at the initial meetings, then take over the ordering and delivery, working through the several criminal syndicates that control the region's flow of illegal arms. Due to the sensitivities and dangers involved, only one syndicate actually buys arms for the radical groups. Because the profits for the transactions are so high, official sources say, and al-Qaeda is still apparently able to command significant funds, non-Muslim criminals - some of them outwardly respectable businessmen - are a key part of the process. "The syndicate is based in Malaysia," says...