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...realize," said Yankee manager Joe Torre, "and the players realize that all of a sudden our responsibility was more than just to baseball fans. It was to the city of New York, to represent them and bring a smile to their face." Downtown, in the Battery, the smoldering pyre of the World Trade Center was grudgingly yielding the bodies of fire fighters and cops killed in the attack. Uptown, in the Bronx, Yankee Stadium had become a cathedral of catharsis, the participants emptying their lungs at full volume, as if exhaling a cheer for Jorge Posada...
...must have believed that their actions had some higher purpose and value. Like so many others in the Middle East, they have been brainwashed by nefarious preachers such as bin Laden. In many ways, their lives, along with those of the people they kill, have been sacrificed on the pyre of his hatred. It is time we put an end to this lethal cycle of propaganda and blood...
...must have believed that their actions had some higher purpose and value. Like so many others in the Middle East, they have been brainwashed by nefarious preachers such as bin Laden. In many ways, their lives, along with those of the people they kill, have been sacrificed on the pyre of his hatred. It is time we put an end to this lethal cycle of propaganda and blood...
...brief moments on Tuesday morning, Irish architect Ronnie Clifford, 47, was twice blessed: as both hero and survivor of the terrorist attacks. Standing in the lobby of the Marriott Hotel after the first plane hit, Clifford saw a charred woman rise from the pyre, her fingernails melting off and her clothes burned onto her skin. He was shielding her with his coat when a second shudder sent them to the floor. To keep her from drifting off, they conversed and prayed. She told him her name, Jennieann Maffeo, and the name and number of her boss at Paine Webber...
...quake struck, but there has been no sign of him since. Is he in another camp? Did he flee to his sister's home in Surat, to the south? Is his body lying lifeless under some mound of bricks and stone?or was it dumped, unrecognized, on a funeral pyre, like thousands of others? The couple, small and frail in their mid-fifties, are trapped somewhere between hope and despair. Every morning, Karsanbhai heads out in search of Vinod, circulating among the NGO camps, government emergency centers and military information booths. He calls Surat to check if Vinod has arrived...