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...Sept. 11, a disaster brought us together, but anticipating the next one seems to be doing the reverse. All around the country, people see the same facts and run in opposite directions. You can find panic in a small Tennessee town and insouciance in midtown Manhattan, and vice versa. Some view taking precautions as a patriotic duty; others see it as complicity in a fearful campaign they want no part of. For some, the prospect of war with Iraq makes everything more frightening--why take action that might cause our enemies to multiply? For others, it seems only more necessary...
...Kreindler, a Harvard Law School (HLS) alum considered a pioneer in aviation disaster law, died Tuesday in Manhattan at the New York University Hospital...
...Simmons did not feel the pressure to live up to her sisters’ legacies. “Going to boarding school made me very independent,” she explains. Simmons also took a year off in between high school and college, during which she worked for a Manhattan advertising agency, taught skiing at a Vail resort, and then spent three months backpacking through Europe. “Being on my own and supporting myself gave me the perspective of being an independent individual,” she says. “Sure, my sisters went here...
Toshiko Mori is Robert P. Hubbard Professor in the Practice of Architecture and chair of the Department of Architecture at the Graduate School of Design. She is also a panelist for the Lower Manhattan Development Corporation, which reviewed proposals for the World Trade Center site...
Emily: New York City…Manhattan, the Upper East Side. I went to Spence, an all-girls’ school. Then boarding school...