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...address a nation in all its grief and anger and confusion over what comes next. It's hard to plan D-day against an enemy with no beaches and no borders, and when wise heads counsel that the most effective counterattack may be the least publicly satisfying kind--the quiet intelligence and financial and psychological warfare that can best "drain the swamp" where the terrorists hide. Would a large-scale attack demonstrate American resolve or play into the hands of those hoping to create a martyr? "Not only do you need the courage of your convictions," Adlai Stevenson once said...
...hijackers achieved stealth by design and happenstance. For one thing, they lived quiet lives. They resided in low-rent, out-of-the-way neighborhoods and often wore the bland American uniform: khakis and polos. What was striking about many of them, in retrospect, is that there was nothing striking about them. "It amazes me how ordinary these guys looked, yet they ended up being involved in probably the greatest crime in American history," says Corey Moore, assistant manager of Gold's Gym in Greenbelt, Md., where five of the hijackers worked...
...Vietnam era, as today, the establishment told protesters to be quiet and let the people in power do their job. The protesters refused. Today there is much less room for questioning the perspicacity of the occupants of the White House as they dispatch the armed forces to distant locales, once again subjecting American soldiers and untold numbers of foreign civilians to the law of unintended consequences. Protest will grow slowly, but it will grow. Undoubtedly, as the anti-war movement finds its legs, the nation’s editorial pages will be filled with belittling comparisons of today?...
Rose and Morris had finally clicked in the second half after struggling in the first. Rose had completed only five of 14 passes in the first 30 minutes, and Morris had been uncharacteristically quiet with 36 yards on three catches after seeing several passes slip through his fingers...
Morris rebounded from his quiet start to finish with 101 yards, and Farley caught passes of 13 and 25 yards to bring the Crimson to the three-yard line...