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Giuliani recently proposed that the memorial selection process be suspended, to allow more time for the meaning of 9/11 to clarify. Though he has no real power in the matter, he's right. The best design might indeed turn out to be built around two profound holes, grave sites filled with calm waters. But should we try to arrive at that design in the midst of a war that we are still fighting? The meanings of that day--who can even name them all? Before we choose how to embody those meanings, what we need is more time to learn...
DIED. INGRID THULIN, 77, severe, worldly Swedish actress, who lent her grave glamour to eight Ingmar Bergman films; of cancer; in Stockholm. The cool blond projected a knowing pessimism in Bergman's Wild Strawberries and The Magician, desperate longing in Winter Light and The Silence, and a mutilating self-hatred in Cries and Whispers. Though her one Hollywood film, The Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse, was a flop, she shone as a soulful socialist in Alain Resnais's La Guerre Est Finie and as a Nazi-era matriarch in Luchino Visconti's The Damned...
...left their village of Chakoti a ravaged wasteland, where machine guns have raked every wall and shrapnel covers the ground. Jaffer says he hopes his father found peace in death. "We buried my father near the border," he says. "So the wind from his country will blow over his grave...
Gonzalo Sanchez de Lozada FORCED TO RESIGN Grave economic failure ended his second term as Bolivia's ruler on Oct. 17. "The dangers ... continue intact...
...city like New York holds a lot of garbage, and a few secrets. In 1968 two children chanced upon a corpse in an abandoned Greenwich Village tenement. The body was buried as John Doe in a pauper?s grave. A year later, fingerprint tests revealed the man?s identity: Bobby Driscoll, dead at 31 of a drug overdose...