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...daughter wound up living just four blocks apart, for years Molly couldn't bring herself to reach out. Soon after Sept. 11, however, they began meeting for breakfast every Tuesday. She knows the healing is going to take a long time. "Sept. 11 happened; and though many, many precious lives were lost that day, I have no doubt many lives were saved as well," she says. "It's emotionally draining, but it's worth it," she says of the reconciliation breakfasts...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: We Gather Together | 11/19/2001 | See Source »

...read the responses from your readers [LETTERS, Oct. 29] and saw people complaining about losing their civil liberties and freedom, I wondered when freedom became more important than saving lives. I would gladly have given up some of my precious freedom if it could have saved the lives of those thousands of people murdered on Sept. 11. If our thoughts are concentrated on what freedoms we might have to give up to stop terrorism, then I think we have truly lost sight of the most valuable thing: life itself. MONICA GRAYBILL Port Royal...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters: Nov. 19, 2001 | 11/19/2001 | See Source »

...ground; a distress call from the pilots. In the case of AA 587, many experts first suspected trouble with the CF6 engines that powered the Airbus 300-600. Yet 48 hours after the accident, investigators have not found major engine problems. In fact, 587 so far, has shown precious little...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Flight 587: More Questions Than Answers | 11/14/2001 | See Source »

...they would send someone who actually had the power to negotiate. The opposition of residents to the current art museum plan is not because of the fact that Harvard is building the museum. We would object to this structure if someone else were building it. The river is a precious resource and we don’t want to lose any more of it than we already have...

Author: By Phyllis Baumann, Bridget Dinsmore, and Alec Wysoker, S | Title: Riverside Committee Not a Rubber Stamp | 11/9/2001 | See Source »

...contest enters its frenzied final 24 hours, nearly 20 percent of New Yorkers consider themselves undecided. Translation: By sundown Tuesday, precious few babies will be left unkissed and, if the weekend?s frenzy of recorded answering machine messages is any indication, no home phone number will be left undialed...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: It's Election Day! (Remember Elections?) | 11/5/2001 | See Source »

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