Word: nelsons
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...been easy, and not just because the President doesn't have the delicately modulated tones of the men in striped pants. (As a South Korean official once said, "George Bush speaks with an iron tongue.") If you do nothing but read the headlines, it would seem that everyone from Nelson Mandela to German Chancellor Gerhard Schroder is implacably opposed to a war with Iraq. Both in the Arab world and in Europe, it is feared that unseating Saddam will inflame Muslim opinion, already incensed by American support for Israel in its struggle with the Palestinians. Next, it's said that...
...York and Washington have been hit more directly by the attacks on the markets than by the attacks of last fall. Enron's collapse turned its hometown of Houston inside out. "That affects a lot more people's lives on a day-to-day basis," says resident George Nelson. "If you are afraid that you might be unemployed, you are not thinking about 9/11." More people said they thought the country was on the right track in October--amid daily alerts and anthrax fears and fire fights in Afghanistan--than in July...
Lieut. Brad Maroyka, commander of Charlie Company's 1st Platoon, was watching his two squads fire at al-Qaeda targets from his position about 150 yards north of the command post. "We've got enemy moving up on the west side," Maroyka radioed company commander Captain Nelson Kraft, who was back near the command post. "We are destroying them, but they are returning fire...
...make a fetish out of the whole thing. Some people overload on cultural traditions without really knowing what they're about." The trick, the experts say, is to expose kids to their birth culture while keeping in mind that interests may change as the children grow. Andrew James Marco Nelson, 15, and dad Jim went to Peru last year for Andrew's first visit to his birth country. "It was amazing," he says. "I loved the colorful art everywhere, and I liked seeing people on the street who looked like me." Now he is taking Spanish lessons back home...
...Dead Air comes out Sept. 5 - is among those starting to recover from creative numbness. And European screens, stages and pages are starting to see the result. The responses seem to fall into three main categories. The first is epitaph-like memorials of the day itself, such as Anne Nelson's salute to New York City firemen, The Guys, starring Tim Robbins and Susan Sarandon, which has been filmed with Sigourney Weaver. Or British actor and director Steven Berkoff's solo performance Requiem to Ground Zero. (Both, along with dozens of other Sept. 11-themed shows, graced this year...