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...understood. But Oklahoma City also wrote the book on recovery. The survivors have become indispensable companions for the families of 9/11 victims. And the memorial to the tragedy shows that traumatized cities can unite, as author Edward Linenthal puts it, "to protest the anonymity of mass death." --By Amanda Ripley...
Hagedorn's book could have offered more background on the slave empire and the workings of the Underground Rail-road beyond Ripley, Ohio, Rankin's town. But the ground-level focus gives Hagedorn's story the flavor and fire of an era when even the newspapers had names like the Agitator and the Castigator. And the Rankins turn out to be a redoubtable clan. After a gang of armed men demanded to search her house for a runaway slave, the minister's wife Jean did not bat an eyelash. "If you do not hereafter keep away you will feel...
...last Monday at the Harvard Book Store, Murch is one of the great unknowns in the art world today. Besides editing the screen adaptation of Ondaatje’s novel The English Patient and winning multiple Oscars, Murch has worked on The Godfather Trilogy, Apocalypse Now, The Talented Mr. Ripley, and Ghost...
...Amanda Ripley. Reported by Melissa August, Eric Roston, Elaine Shannon, Mark Thompson, Douglas Waller and Michael Weisskopf/Washington
Behavior that once might have been called paranoid was praised by authorities. Says Skamania County sheriff Chuck Bryan: "We live in a much different country now." --By Amanda Ripley. Reported by Polly Forster and Nathan Thornburgh/Portland