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...Bush's plainspoken style may be well suited to a time of fear, grief and a primal rage for revenge. Those close to him recognize the costs associated with such an attribute. It was a mistake, at a time when the U.S. needs to be sensitive to its Muslim citizens and friends in Islamic countries, to cast the nation's task as a "crusade"; it was crass for Bush to adopt the attitude of a frontier sheriff and say he wanted bin Laden captured "dead or alive." "Sometimes he can be too plainspoken," says an adviser. "But when...
...White House--where grief counselors have been made available and the morning prayer meetings are better attended than they recently were--there has been some reordering of responsibilities. Josh Bolten, the deputy chief of staff, now chairs a group called the Domestic Consequences Principals Council, charged with reviewing the need for everything from an economic stimulus package to the parlous state of the airlines. Bush himself, in addition to his regular national security briefings (there's now an afternoon meeting as well as one in the morning), meets each day with FBI Director Robert Mueller and Attorney General John Ashcroft...
...when the first news was flashed to their Secret Service detail. Their plane was diverted to Milwaukee, Wis., and they were rushed off to a motel beyond the city limits. They could do very little but follow events on television as the rest of the nation was doing. The grief, the horror of the atrocity, pervaded their small outpost. The President, flying out of Florida, put in a call to his father. "Where are you?" the son asked. "I'm in Milwaukee," reported the father. "What are you doing there?" the son wanted to know. "This is where you grounded...
Once the initial shock and grief wears off, people may return to shopping as an escape from the barrage of harrowing TV images. "Fashion is emotive, and female consumers in particular shop to make themselves feel good," says David Wolfe, creative director at the Doneger Group, a market-research firm in New York City. Automakers are trying to kick start customers; in the past week, with sales slipping, Ford and GM rolled out interest-free financing for new cars bought before the end of October. At an art gallery in Santa Fe, N.M., a show that opened only three days...
Lessons in Grief...