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...duty cop told TIME. But 20 minutes after the initial blasts, as police and ambulance attended to the dead and injured, a third blast blew up a car parked 300 feet north of Ben Yehuda. That explosion, which some witnesses believe was meant as a kind of coup de grace, injured only one person. But the first two had a huge toll, at least eight dead and 180 injured. On Thursday, another bomb attack had killed three people. The Israeli Minister of Defense announced that he will conduct a meeting with the heads of army and security forces to decide...
...America’s insatiable image and information driven mass culture. What emerges is a lurid caricature of the 1990s: a “beautiful, starving Hutu refugee” models to satisfy the craze for “real” people; Charlotte’s saving grace is an Internet start-up which broadcasts, recounts and eventually rewrites the lives of representative Ordinary People (such as coal miners, fishermen, the homeless, addicts and farmers) and selected Extraordinary People (like herself) via the Internet; a terrorist is assimilated, one Big Mac at a time, into the American culture that...
...Headmaster of Groton spoke, his voice quaking with emotion, calling for those who remain to remember Denny and to honor him by imitating his fine example. And, in a wonderful display of magnanimity and grace, Mr. Lewis asked Denny’s innumerable friends to reflect on our own lives the light that Denny exuded during his. It will be our honor and our privilege to attempt...
...Religions program at Valley Beth Shalom, a conservative synagogue in Sherman Oaks, Calif., drew 1,400 people to hear a speaker on Buddhism. "I hear people say, 'Isn't it wonderful how we're coming together as a nation?'" observes the Rev. Don Sperber, pastor of the 700-member Grace United Methodist Church in Denver. "I'm troubled when the most common song I hear sung today is God Bless America, and I keep saying, '...as well as the other nations.' I'm not opposed to patriotism, but I'm opposed to having it be blind to the reality...
...only to dispense bromides about Harvard being “indigenously American but simultaneously global.” The difference between this call and Summers’s recent declaration that “of all the kinds of public service, there is a special nobility, a special grace to those who are prepared to sacrifice their lives for our country” tells us much about the change that our country has undergone in the last month. But it also tells us much that is good, and worthy giving thanks for, about the difference between the rhetoric and wisdom...