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...Front Street, unfurled a three-story flag down the front of their building on Sept. 11. Jim remembered learning that, after Lincoln's assassination, people had placed black sashes across their flags. So the next day he added a black banner. "I felt really strong about emphasizing my grief," explains Caporale, a big, booming man who used to be a New York State police officer...
...government asks of its citizens. "Enjoy life," President Bush says. "Go down to Disney World." Because it is normal to want to have fun. Buy stocks, say the Wall Street cheerleaders, boost the market, because it is normal to want to get rich. Feel your feelings, say the grief counselors, because anger is normal and anguish is cleansing and there's nowhere to hide in any case. A party store in Texas gets an order for 10 of its Osama bin Laden pinatas from a California therapist who says she wants them for her patients. Take a gamble, come...
...government asks of its citizens. "Enjoy life," President Bush says. "Go down to Disney World." Because it is normal to want to have fun. Buy stocks, say the Wall Street cheerleaders, boost the market, because it is normal to want to get rich. Feel your feelings, say the grief counselors, because anger is normal and anguish is cleansing and there's nowhere to hide in any case. A party store in Texas gets an order for 10 of its Osama bin Laden piñatas from a California therapist who says she wants them for her patients. Take a gamble...
...Soviet apparently got nowhere. A member of Iran's clerical establishment later said that the Ayatullah sharply told the convoy that 'Brezhnev was stepping into the Shah's shoes and was heading for the same catastrophe that befell the ex-dictator. He said the Soviets would come to grief if they remained in Afghanistan...
...America moves from shock, to grief, to revenge, there is an ever-increasing onus on our leaders and experts to explain the tragic events of Sept. 11. While everyone seems to have a slightly different version about why disaster struck and what might have been done to prevent it, most of these explanations fall squarely into one of two camps. Elements of the right argue that Islam is a violent religion whose followers are bent on destroying America. They hold up CNN footage of a small cheering group of hooligans in the West Bank as proof that all Arabs...