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...nice, true." MARCO MATERAZZI, Italian soccer player, finally revealing what was said during the July World Cup final that provoked star French footballer Zinedine Zidane to head-butt him after he grabbed Zidane by the shirt and the Frenchman told him, "If you want, I'll give you the jersey later." "Calm down. Breathe. We hear you." MARK ZUCKERBERG, founder of the networking site Facebook, in response to protests about a new feature that updates users' home pages with fresh information that their friends have posted. Users called it an invasion of privacy. Facebook is "aggressively evaluating" the feature Sources...
...courage and valor of the thousands of emergency responders, for example - not just from New York and New Jersey, but across our entire nation - set a new standard for heroism the world over. Those heroes - men and women who willingly thrust themselves into danger?s path on the chance they could save a single life - shall forever be worthy of America?s deepest respect, admiration and gratitude. Those who were lost in that noble effort, and all those police officers, EMTs and firefighters who continue to protect, defend and support Americans today, are our truest exemplars of courage, duty...
...five years since Kristin Breitweiser watched her husband die in the World Trade Center on television, the onetime New Jersey housewife has transformed herself into a vocal political activist. In Wake-Up Call: The Political Education of a 9/11 Widow, a new book out this week, Breitweiser, 35, recounts her work to establish the 9/11 Commission, taking on Henry Kissinger and being serenaded by Bruce Springsteen. She recently spoke to TIME's Kathleen Kingsbury on why the U.S. isn't safer five years after September 11, 2001, what we should do about it and why Ann Coulter isn't helping...
...TIME: You are one of the 9/11 widows, nicknamed the "Jersey Girls," who strongly advocated for an independent investigation into what allowed the World Trade Center attacks to take place. Did the subsequent 9/11 commission and its report improve our national security...
...TIME: In her own book Godless released in June, conservative commentator Ann Coulter calls you and your fellow Jersey Girls various names - "harpies," "witches" - saying some "9/11 victims turned themselves into the arbiters of what anyone could say about 9/11...