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...Paul O?Neill, at the end of a storybook career as a Yankee, dumped a single to left as the faithful serenaded him with chants of ?Paul-ie, Paul-ie.? Then, with two out, first baseman Tino Martinez, who like most of the Yankees batsman had been hitless and helpless to this point, smoked the first pitch he saw over the wall in right center...
...intelligence establishment has never seemed so helpless. Not only have investigators failed to trace the highly refined anthrax sent to government leaders and media icons across the nation, but worse yet, they don’t even know whether to look here or overseas. After Sept. 11 showed how unprepared we are to defend against terrorism at home, the ongoing anthrax scare suggests that we are even less equipped to investigate...
...play’s final stretch is ignited by the appearance of Madame (Eugenie E. Suter ’02), who seems to have been imported straight from a French Salon—assertive, affected, in charge, and yet, helpless. It is this odd mix that informs her relationship with Claire and Solange, whom she sends into a frenzy of servile activity, while she remains preoccupied with her own affairs...
...Sept. 11, my generation, the MTV generation, lost its innocence. For the first time, we felt scared, confused and helpless; we cried as we have never cried before. The nature of our college class schedules allowed us to watch the TV coverage, and the image of the jetliners hitting the World Trade Center will be forever inscribed on our minds. This generation has got its wake-up call. We will never be the same again. ABHILASH REDDY West Lafayette...
...when the rules don't apply, when inconceivably cold-blooded evil is in command, the victims are truly helpless. In the face of unfathomable evil, decent people are psychologically disarmed. What is so striking--and so alien to civilized sensibilities--about the terrorists of radical Islam is their cult of death. Their rhetoric is soaked in the glory of immolation: immolation of the infidel and self-immolation of the avenger. Not since the Nazi rallies of the 1930s has the world witnessed such celebration of blood and soil, of killing and dying. What Western TV would feature, as does Palestinian...