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...American flags and string it along the city's coastline. In Berlin German Chancellor Gerhard Schroder will attend an ecumenical service held in the Berlin Dom. Citizens of Anchorage will be able to make free long-distance phone calls to loved ones at a designated call center. The mayor of Birmingham, Ala., will dedicate the new Memorial Walk, which includes a ribbon-shaped sculpture and a flower garden. In Jerusalem a ceremony will be held at the Israel Museum, followed by an exhibit of Joel Meyerowitz's ground zero photos. In Cincinnati, Ohio, 343 empty pairs of boots will stand...
...director Spike Lee. CBS has announced a TV movie on Flight 93, the hijacked plane that crashed in Pennsylvania. But a network spokesman stresses that the movie is still in development and might not ever see the light of day. Meanwhile, an NBC biopic on former New York City Mayor Rudy Giuliani is also undergoing close scrutiny for its handling of the tragedy. Jeff Gaspin, an NBC executive vice president in charge of movies, says the network is trying to figure out how many script pages should be devoted to Sept. 11: "We're at the five- or six-page...
...year. The truth is that he has spent much of his life enmeshed in current events, making a living as a freelancer and giving permanent form to subjects such as teacup tempests in Anguilla and Grenada. It's hard these days to imagine Naipaul following the Norman-Mailer-for-mayor campaign around New York City, but there was a time when he willingly did so. He sought such assignments because, as he was once fond of saying, he needed "to earn a few pence...
...warlords in their place, and the International Security Assistance Force composed primarily of European troops (currently led by Turkey). And the reluctance of the U.S. to sanction any expansion of the peacekeeping mission beyond the 4,000 ISAF troops currently in the capital has earned Karzai the unkind nickname "Mayor of Kabul," since his writ doesn't run much beyond the city limits. Even there, some U.S. foreign policy experts believe he's in danger both from the Pansjiris and from the increasingly confident anti-Karzai jihadis...
...Batasuna, however, may have more to do with the mainstream parties' bid to anchor their electoral support elsewhere in Spain than with finding a solution to the Basque conflict. The goal of Aznar's ruling Popular Party is "to defeat ETA," according its leader in the Basque country, Jaime Mayor Oreja. That message may attract voters elsewhere in Spain, but in the Basque Country, the citizenry's main desire is a peaceful resolution of the conflict. Last May, the Catholic bishops of the Basque archdioceses published a letter calling for a negotiated solution to the conflict. The Bishops were vehemently...