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...fathers calling their estranged sons and making confessions, trying to put things right; of old friends getting past small grudges that don't matter anymore and probably never did; of couples renewing their vows and deciding it's O.K. to go in late for work. Single twentysomethings in Manhattan whose families live far away have started having sleepovers, like in junior high. Eighty-year-old parents, the generation that thought it had won the Last Battle, call their grown children every night...
...response elsewhere was not so gentle. A gunman murdered the Sikh owner of a Chevron station in Mesa, Ariz. "I am an American," the suspect, Frank Roque, declared upon arrest. A woman went through the phone book and made hateful calls to anyone named Abdul. A Muslim cabdriver in Manhattan kept his license out of view and didn't tell customers his first name--Mohammed--because of the fear he sensed. People asked where he is from when they got into the cab: If they are not familiar with Bangladesh, "I tell them it's in South America. And then...
...officers following some 63,232 leads in the case. FBI Deputy Director Tom Pickard, a key figure in the case against the 1993 World Trade Center bombers, and the bureau's top man in New York, Barry Mawn, are running the investigation from Washington and two secret locations in Manhattan. Detectives and intelligence agents around the world are pitching in. The flow of data is crushing; every day brings new leads--and new dead ends. But answers to some of the most important questions are beginning to emerge...
Last Thursday someone threw stone after stone through the windshields of cabs in Manhattan's Central Park, apparently targeting dark-skinned drivers. "A lot of cabdrivers are not driving," says Ali Agha Abba, a Pakistani-American taxi driver in New York City. "I can't afford to not work. So I have to take a chance." Last Monday a man drove a Mustang through the front entrance of the Grand Mosque in Parma, Ohio, the largest in the state. The Sunday before, a Muslim woman in Memphis was beaten on her way to worship. The day before that, a Pakistani...
...Brown, 34, a lawyer who chatted up a stranger in a cafe the day after the disaster. "We started talking, and it was only about what had happened, but it was in the context of our personal lives." That night Brown ended up kissing her new friend on a Manhattan stoop. She admits to some lingering guilt over feeling good at a time when people were feeling so bad (enough guilt, in fact, that Brown and others quoted in this article requested pseudonyms). Still, she says, "it was affirming. And I'm really thankful that it happened...