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...itself: the World Trade Center buildings before, during and after the plane crashes from every imaginable angle; firemen, relief workers, politicians, animals; the makeshift memorials around the site. Some of the most poignant photos are of people reacting to the events at hand—images which capture the shock and the horror as well as the heroic solidarity of rescue workers. Images full of human pain and suffering are equaled by images which show human nature at its fullest and most noble...
With her trophy case including numerous Emmy’s and Golden Globes, and her resume including a lengthy stint with the Royal Shakespeare Company, that Helen Mirren is an actor of tremendous skill should come as a shock to none. It is nevertheless surprising that she is the true star of the latest Broadway revival of Strindberg’s Dance of Death, somehow managing to outshine her distinguished co-star, Sir Ian McKellen. With a flawless, expressive delivery, Mirren is radiant as a long-suffering wife who is part-demon, part-martyr...
Sept. 11 delivered both a shock and a surprise--the attack, and our response to it--and we can argue forever over which mattered more. There has been so much talk of the goodness that erupted that day that we forget how unprepared we were for it. We did not expect much from a generation that had spent its middle age examining all the ways it failed to measure up to the one that had come before--all fat, no muscle, less a beacon to the world than a bully, drunk on blessings taken for granted...
...American President to confirm the wisdom of a Chinese communist, but if ever proof were needed of Mao Zedong's maxim that "political power grows out of the barrel of a gun," the war in Afghanistan waged by George W. Bush's Administration has just supplied it. To the shock, it might be added, of those Americans who, but the day before yesterday, still did not appreciate how awe-inspiring their country's military had become. At the end of October, as the forces of the Northern Alliance seemed to shirk a fight and the residents of Kabul left town...
Sept. 11 delivered both a shock and a surprise?the attack, and our response to it?and we can argue forever over which mattered more. There has been so much talk of the goodness that erupted that day that we forget how unprepared we were for it. We did not expect much from a generation that had spent its middle age examining all the ways it failed to measure up to the one that had come before?all fat, no muscle, less a beacon to the world than a bully, drunk on blessings taken for granted...