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...classroom setup the product of an understandable rush job? Maybe. Was it Sorkin subordinating the needs of drama to get out a message? Sure, but post-disaster charitable feelings aside, it's not as though he's never done that before. In the end, you have to wonder whether it ever occurred to Sorkin that it might be the slightest bit insulting to essentially represent the home audience, within the story, as schoolchildren, who need to be gratefully taught his lessons...
...Ultra-liberal AFL-CIO President John J. Sweeney has also voiced his support for Bush, and he openly backed any U.S. military retaliation that might take place. The magnitude and degree of positive responses from those normally critical of the administration have been unbelievable. Conservative talk-show host Rush Limbaugh noted, “There is a tremendous, tremendous change taking place out there, one that’s founded in respect for this current president. It is just absolutely amazing...
Everyone here has felt the thrill of uncertainty—and the winner’s high. Determined to recreate that rush, some students have kept playing the odds. This time, with their money...
...American academic Samuel Huntington spoke of a coming "clash of civilizations" between Islam and the West. It seemed a simplistic and dangerous dichotomy. Today more people believe this than ever before. Those of us who are caught in the middle must do all we can to stop the rush to mutual demonization, which will only lead to unspeakable wars, destroying everything that we all hold dear...
...getting the city back on its feet without diminishing the horror of its loss. Giuliani can go from empathetic Rudy wrapping a sorrowful widow in his hunched shoulders to traffic warden in a New York minute, barring single-occupancy cars from downtown bridges and tunnels into Manhattan during rush hour. On a typical day last week, he found simple words to console the two children of Inspector Anthony Infante at St. Teresa's in the morning, then managed the ego of the Rev. Jesse Jackson as he took advantage of Giuliani's media entourage to nominate himself negotiator in chief...