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Bathed in the television's fiery glow of images from the World Trade Center explosions, Pakistani banker Anar Khan turned to his four young sons curled up next to him on the rug. "See? Evil brings evil upon itself," he exulted. "This is Allah's punishment for the wrong that America has done to Muslims." It is easy for Khan to understand the mentality of the airline hijackers who unleashed their apocalyptic destruction on New York and Washington. He can comprehend how 19 educated men, despite having seen the world in all its wondrous multiplicity, can crash airliners into skyscrapers...
...Controllers all over the eastern United States might have already realized this day had turned into hell. The screens that glow in darkened rooms in hundreds of facilities around the country are the linchpin of an air traffic system that manages tens of thousands of flights a day. The system is almost dull in its routine. Controllers and pilots use regular routes, fly prescribed altitudes along decades-old highways in the sky, and most important, are in constant contact. Controllers are like flashlights in the dark for commercial airplanes: those FAA employees know what's going...
...when angry or otherwise aroused - was a clear improvement on Schaffner?s stiffly human-aping overlords. Led by Tim Roth?s manic and maniacal (if slightly hammy) turn as General Thade and Helena Bonham Carter's incredible suffusing of her liberal-princess chimp with a warm and sexy glow, the hairy actors rule this movie. And of course Burton?s choice of Rick Baker as makeup man made it all impressively realistic...
...doubly cursed pale nerd for being both a Harvard student and a librarian. But I thoroughly enjoy researching local history in the reference department and helping with the summer reading program in the children’s department. My work provides me with a warm, inner glow, and the modest fluorescent light bulbs and the wavering computer screens bathe me in a skin-cancer-free luminosity...
...wasn’t any closer to discovering the location of my elusive tan there on Clearwater Beach, but I think for now I am happy basking in the glow of a Harvard education and a good book...