Word: harborers
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...have ripped up issues for news before, of course; in fact, on that first day of infamy, when Pearl Harbor was bombed, we ditched the cover we had planned (on a new Walt Disney movie called Dumbo) and switched to Admiral Husband E. Kimmel, commander in chief of the Pacific Fleet. (In those days we closed early in the week.) In this case, since we now close on Saturdays, the workweek had just begun, so we didn't have to throw anything out; we just started from scratch...
What's needed is a unified, unifying, Pearl Harbor sort of purple American fury--a ruthless indignation that doesn't leak away in a week or two, wandering off into Prozac-induced forgetfulness or into the next media sensation (O.J.... Elian... Chandra...) or into a corruptly thoughtful relativism (as has happened in the recent past, when, for example, you might hear someone say, "Terrible what he did, of course, but, you know, the Unabomber does have a point, doesn't he, about modern technology...
...most serious - and at this point, least calculable - threat to the U.S. economy comes from within. Compare September 11, 2001 to Pearl Harbor, compare it to D-Day, compare it to the Gulf War or the War of 1812. But the fact is the U.S. has never endured a catastrophe that was so many parts fear and so few parts comfort. Never a war without an enemy, never one waged with our own planes. Never one that has so much potential to reach straight into the heart of its citizens. Its consumers...
...watched the horrific events, we decided to devote a special issue to memorializing this day and to get it into our readers' hands as quickly as possible. We have ripped up issues for news before, of course; in fact, on that first day of infamy, when Pearl Harbor was bombed, we ditched the cover we had planned (on a new Walt Disney movie called Dumbo) and switched to Admiral Husband E. Kimmel, commander in chief of the Pacific Fleet. (In those days we closed early in the week.) In this case, since we now close on Saturdays, the workweek...
...cannot live in infamy without the nourishment of rage. Let's have rage. What?s needed is a unified, unifying, Pearl Harbor sort of purple American fury - a ruthless indignation that doesn?t leak away in a week or two, wandering off into Prozac-induced forgetfulness or into the next media sensation (O.J. ... Elian ... Chandra ...) or into a corruptly thoughtful relativism (as has happened in the recent past, when, for example, you might hear someone say, "Terrible what he did, of course, but, you know, the Unabomber does have a point, doesn?t he, about modern technology...