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...over. It's one thing to calculate what we've lost; but then there's Victim Compensation Fund arbiter Ken Feinberg, advising a widower who wants to know whether he should fill out one claim form or two, since his wife was eight months pregnant. Most kids had their shock and confusion, but unlike Hilary Strauch, they didn't have a teacher pull them aside in the hall and say, "You're my hero," for how she has handled having her father crushed...
Later that week, Ginny suggested that they donate some of George's undershirts and Argyle socks to the rescue workers. "What about when he comes home?" asked Hilary, who had said almost nothing to her mother since the towers had fallen. Ginny, who had nearly shut down from the shock, followed Hilary's lead: "Then obviously we'll buy him some more...
...sold more than 10 million copies apiece. In an interview with Dan Rather that aired on CBS, the Chicks announced that by their math, Sony had made $200 million off them but that individually they had yet to gross seven figures. Then, in a move that sent shock waves through Nashville (admittedly it's a town that's easily shocked), the Chicks served Sony with papers claiming that because of the company's alleged accounting misdeeds, they were declaring themselves free agents. "We all know there are some major problems in the music industry," says Maguire. "Every new act signs...
After the immediate shock," says best-selling British novelist Iain Banks, "I thought, 'Thank goodness I'm not writing a book at the moment' because you just think, 'What's the point?'" A year after the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks, the arts community - including Banks, whose novel Dead Air comes out Sept. 5 - is among those starting to recover from creative numbness. And European screens, stages and pages are starting to see the result. The responses seem to fall into three main categories. The first is epitaph-like memorials of the day itself, such as Anne Nelson's salute...
...life and the imperative to go on. On Here Comes the New Folk Underground, his first album in 10 years, Baerwald remains the prince of rain, singing "Love is eternal as long as it lasts/ Good times come, then they pass." The lyrical dourness is leavened by a great shock of musical energy. Baerwald moves among roots, gospel, pop, rock and even cabaret songs with such ease that you might believe he's actually--gasp!--enjoying himself...