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...Once this plan was revealed, the public outcry was harsh: Healy faced a severe dressing-down before a congressional committee just days after leaving office. Despite Healy's argument that the Liberty Fund would go to worthwhile causes, many felt the Red Cross had deliberately misled donors by using September 11th in a bait-and-switch ploy. Monday, the organization offered to return money to any donor who felt deceived by the fund-raising; there?s no word on whether anyone?s taken them up on their offer...
...find themselves idle but also complicated to navigate the bureaucracy of unemployment. "Some have had to resort to filing for food stamps," says Ernesto Mora, communications assistant of Service Employees International Union Local 32BJ, whose 70,000 members included 2,000 who lost work after Sept. 11. "It's harsh for people who took pride in their jobs to find themselves suddenly pushed against the wall...
...simply the unfortunate historical associations that pose the problem; it's the very idea that countries either fall into lockstep with the U.S. or else they're with the bad guys. The typical response in the developing world to the U.S. war on terror has run along these lines: harsh condemnation of bin Laden and unreserved solidarity with the U.S. as the victim of a terror outrage; strong intelligence cooperation with the U.S. in an effort to uproot al Qaeda global network; and misgivings over whether bombing Afghanistan will have any positive effect in combating terrorism. Even European governments...
...country, having left their homes because of a combination of war and a devastating three-year drought. Others are now fleeing due to the prolonged bombing and for fear of retaliation by those who may soon take power. They need food, shelter and medicine. All face starvation. The harsh winter has started. The pessimists say it already may be too late...
During what has been as an extraordinarily tough time for the city of New York, the Yankees were able to provide the Big Apple with a much-needed distraction from the suddenly harsh realities of the post-Sept. 11th world. And in making their improbable run through the 2001 playoffs, the Yankees not only exemplified the best of what sports has to offer in this difficult time, they also represented the resiliency of the people of New York...