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...Then one day Hilary's principal called to say he had heard about a special daylong grief camp for 9/11 victims: Comfort Zone Camp, based in Richmond, Va. Originally created for children who have lost loved ones, Comfort Zone rallied to set up satellites in New York and New Jersey just after Sept. 11. The first session was virtually next door to the northern New Jersey hamlet where Ginny had grown up. It was one of the few places on earth she knew she could find from memory...
...years earlier he had written a novel they considered the work of an infidel. They said they had not read the novel. Who told them it was sacrilegious? Someone living in a cave in the mountains of Afghanistan, or sitting in a London cafe or a mosque in New Jersey, told them so. In Egypt alone, these fundamentalists have killed more than 1,000 policemen and ordinary citizens, Christian and Muslim alike. In one of the most beautiful places on earth, the temple of Queen Hatshepsut in Luxor, they slaughtered nearly 60 tourists in 1997. In Algeria their sickles endlessly...
...Newman is arguing her other cases and commuting from New Jersey to New York. "I spend my life in the Holland Tunnel," she says, sighing. But Padilla v. U.S.A. has swallowed her summer. "I haven't been to the shore once," she says. "I went to Fire Island. I was one block from the beach, and I stayed inside the entire time." She sends letters to Padilla but has no idea if he is getting them. She keeps in touch with his family. Civil-liberties groups besiege her with offers of publicity and free legal advice, but she ignores them...
Sources: FEMA, N.Y.P.D., F.D.N.Y., Port Authority of New York and New Jersey, McKinsey & Co., Office of the Chief Medical Examiner, Justice Department, FBI, New York Times, USA Today, Atlantic Monthly
...Behind the Scenes: Kill Bill Movies: So Close Books: Theroux on Naipaul Books: Mysterious Massacre Books: Waylaid in New Jersey...