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United we stand: That is the mantra, the logo, the declaration of codependency for the new Fortress America. How, then, must someone feel who stands apart, in opposition to the nation's righteous war fever? Ask Catherine Herdlick, a graduate student at Parsons School of Design, who helped carry a banner reading PEACE NOT WAR last Thursday in Manhattan's Union Square. Ask the 500 or so demonstrators who convened there a day later before marching north to Times Square. They are the first peaceniks of the 21st century...
...world, is such that the smallness of human life, its everyday quasi-public intimacy, finds itself hard-pressed to compete. Smallness has long been endangered, of course, for mammoth buildings can generate an extraordinary sense of strength and power, a sense meted out in such words as citadel, fortress, bastion, and even tower. It is not surprising, perhaps, that the collapse of such strong buildings, such powerful symbols, has met with strong and powerful responses. I do not mean the response of firefighters, rescue workers, doctors, nurses, the police, and average New Yorkers, for whom strength and power are continually...
...Tokyo Prince Hotel, with 2,500 guests, many of them constituents of Koizumi's bused in from Yokosuka. His political mentor, Fukuda, was Prime Minister at the time, and he and his wife flanked the wedding couple, toasting them before a big cake shaped like the granite, fortress-like Diet building. Miyamoto moved in with the Koizumi family in their large, yet modest, two-story home in Yokosuka, where she was expected to cook meals and clean not only for her husband, but also for his mother and his sisters. This is not unusual in Japan, where the wife...
...nature of democracy that it cannot fully protect itself from an attack of this kind, at least not without becoming a fortress and thereby undermining democracy,” she said...
...based closely on historian Stephen Ambrose's book about Easy Company, an elite paratroop unit that had the dubious luck to land knee-deep in key moments of the war in Europe, from D-day to the Battle of the Bulge to the capture of Hitler's mountain fortress. And it has gone through the same, now obligatory seal-of-approval process as Ryan: screenings for real live veterans who emerged to say, They got it. This is what it really looked like. If you believe that is all the praise a war story needs, Brothers...