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With no strong leads, investigators are turning to the public for help. In Washington, the U.S. Postal Service upped its reward for information on the attacks to $1.25 million. In New York City, the FBI and local police have put up posters asking about Manhattan hospital worker Kathy Nguyen's whereabouts in the weeks before her death. It's possible, they think, that learning how she got inhalation anthrax could somehow triangulate on the attacker...
Where Conant had been the public figure, weighing in on national policy debate and ultimately taking time off from Harvard to work on the Manhattan project, Pusey used the bully pulpit to press for the campaign. Pusey roamed the country pitching “the case for Harvard,” even making a national television appearance...
...While I understand the need to move forward with our lives, I am extremely worried about the emerging monopoly on the definition of bravery. Two towers were reduced to smoldering rubble, instantaneously ending more than 4,500 innocent peoples’ lives. The landscape of Manhattan has been transformed, and symbols of American industry and strength have been replaced by a lingering stench of death and destruction that still permeates lower Manhattan. On Sept. 11, for the first time during my life, war planes patrolled our skies. Now, more innocent Americans are being targeted with letters laced with anthrax...
...Rose worked in midtown Manhattan last summer with the investment bank Bear Stearns in an attempt to get some real-world experience for his economics concentration. It was his first time in New York City, and Rose says he loved it. With the September 11th terror attacks, he also vividly remembers the weeks before the world changed...
...apartment down [in Lower Manhattan],” Rose says. “I was down there all the time. After work I’d go to a bar with some buddies, right at the base of the World Trade Center...