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...Israelis insist their security needs now require this de-facto reoccupation of Area A, and are openly disdainful of the Bush administration's plans to rebuild PA security structures in the hope they'll resume their Oslo-mandated function...
...that the cleanup is over, the impulse to rebuild is gaining speed--too much speed for some of the families. "The powers that be are moving at a pace that we're having a hard time keeping up with," says Iken. "The families are going to become very vocal about how they're feeling." As much as anything else, it's election-year politics that is driving the process. George Pataki, New York's Republican Governor, is seeking a third term. Andrew Cuomo, the front runner among Democratic contenders, has been criticizing Pataki's management of the rebuilding effort. Pataki...
Even so, in the stunned weeks after Sept. 11, there was a powerful impulse to simply rebuild the towers, all 110 stories, to show that Americans could not be brought low by terrorists. Then people remembered that however much we love them in retrospect, the Twin Towers were a botch. At their completion in 1973, they were already anachronisms, products of an imperial Modernism that destroyed human-scale neighborhoods and in their place erected mammoth towers on desolate plazas...
When the networks gave way to the splintervision of cable and rock subgenred itself out of the business of unifying youth, we lost our national conversation. Since then, we have been trying to rebuild an Ed Sullivan from spare parts. Television, having mostly traded in mass storytelling for niche storytelling, has supplemented its limited diet of universally appealing programs like the Oscars and the Super Bowl by creating semireal events like The Bachelor and Survivor. Albums are one-week events: platinum albums are no longer achieved after two hit singles snake their way up Casey Kasem's chart but rather...
...hope to help rebuild Princeton’s traditional strengths in international affairs and to ensure that the school plays a central role in addressing a new generation of economic, political, scientific and technological challenges facing the country and the world,” she said...