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...give a nice smile, or just exclaim “Oh!” and run away. Everybody at school is interesting and has a goal of his or her own. They have lots of things going on in their mind. While they may have a reaction of momentary shock, it goes away really fast. Everybody jumps back into their life. It is nice to be away from the industry and around lots of young smart people...
...America moves from shock, to grief, to revenge, there is an ever-increasing onus on our leaders and experts to explain the tragic events of Sept. 11. While everyone seems to have a slightly different version about why disaster struck and what might have been done to prevent it, most of these explanations fall squarely into one of two camps. Elements of the right argue that Islam is a violent religion whose followers are bent on destroying America. They hold up CNN footage of a small cheering group of hooligans in the West Bank as proof that all Arabs...
...decades art was made to shock. Now people are turning to art for its ability to soothe. Especially popular in e-mails and chat rooms in recent days is W.H. Auden's poem "September 1, 1939" ("The unmentionable odour of death/Offends the September night"), written as World War II began. TIME asked artists and writers what they were turning...
...have long admired Morrow for his insights, his strength of argument, his clarity of thought. What sadness, then, indeed what a shock, to hear him call for "a ruthless indignation" and "a policy of focused brutality." If we act ruthlessly in our response as a nation, we will have become as uncivilized as those who have perpetrated these awful deeds. PAUL W. NISLY Grantham...
...attention has been paid to the usual differences between us. We can honor the thousands who have died by maintaining this unity. Let's remember these days the next time we start to fight with one another. If we are able to dismiss our prejudices in the wake of shock and horror, can't we also do so in times of peace? LOU LAMARCA Cleveland, Ohio...