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...Spiritual and Philosophical Dimensions.” The Harvard Book Store continues to display a can’t-miss-it “Sept. 11” table, where Yossef Bodansky’s Bin Laden sits next to Matteo Pericoli’s Manhattan Unfurled, an accordion-fold rendering of the Manhattan skyline. At Harvard Book Store’s fellow independent, Brookline Booksmith, the booksellers have created a special section, “Middle Eastern Current Affairs and History,” that deals with the issue from a variety of perspectives...
Eventually, I go home, have some dinner, and leave for Manhattan again, this time with my family to go see a Broadway show. Tickets are cheap these days. I’m missing the first game of the World Series, but then again, the Yankees win every game I watch. I figure that maybe I can pull a Scott and make a difference...
...remember flying into New York at about this time last year, just before the Subway Series between the Mets and the Yanks was set to begin. I remember paying little attention to Lower Manhattan, instead zeroing in on Shea Stadium during the descent and feeling an indescribable surge of electricity and anticipation of the coming games...
...twelve months, a World Series loss and an apocalypse later, I don’t feel much like taking the Delta Shuttle from Logan to LaGuardia. I take the train home instead. I can only imagine that Lower Manhattan looks smaller from above than it did, and assume that the “2000 National League Champs” banner still stubbornly hangs of the side of Shea...
...UNITED STATES Bombers Sentenced Manhattan's Federal District Court handed down life sentences to four supporters of Osama bin Laden convicted of bombing the U.S. embassies in Kenya and Tanzania in 1998. Two of the conspirators, found guilty of murder, had faced the death penalty but a jury voted instead to impose life sentences without parole. Judge Leonard Sand ordered each man to pay $7 million to the victims' families and $26 million to the U.S. government...