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...They man controllers' screens in darkened basement rooms, they maintain the complex computer systems that operate the world's busiest air traffic systems, and they anonymously keep the system flowing. The New York employees did that every day until Sept. 11, when their jobs put them in the front row of the country's worst nightmare. The FAA staffers in the room with Garvey on Monday afternoon, almost all women, stood expectantly, their hands clasped in front of them, their eyes red from hours of work and grief...
...Laden brings some particular, and collectively potent, elements to this equation. As a volunteer in the war that the Islamic rebels of Afghanistan fought against the Soviets in the 1980s, bin Laden had a front-row seat at an astonishing and empowering development: the defeat of a superpower by a gaggle of makeshift militias. Though the U.S., with billions of dollars in aid, helped the militias in their triumph, bin Laden soon turned on their benefactor. When U.S. troops in 1990 arrived in his sacred Saudi homeland to fight Saddam Hussein, bin Laden considered their infidel presence a desecration...
...Bush then put the terrorists in historial perspective, adding them to a grisly Murderer's Row of history: "We have seen their kind before. They're the heirs of all the murderous ideologies of the 20th century. By sacrificing human life to serve their radical visions, by abandoning every value except the will to power, they follow in the path of fascism, Nazism and totalitarianism." And again, these are battles we have won, not easily and not immeidiately, but slowly, painfully over time...
...lead Crimson female for the second race in a row was junior Melissa Tanner. Tanner crossed the line in a time of 18:15.5, good for 13th place...
...only thing more inane than the dilemmas people pose are the answers they get back. What passes for social wisdom is often either anachronistic blather written by columnists who remember the lindy hop; oversexed silliness pushed by magazines headlined "Your Best Orgasm Ever!"--for the millionth issue in a row; or wishy-washy New-Ageisms...