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...word: community. "The church is still one of the main ways for people to be with each other and with God," says Canon Jim Rosenthal of the Anglican Communion. In good times, people may not feel a need for the security that faith can provide. But the attacks shook the status quo, says Henry Paasonen, senior pastor of the Berlin International Church, prompting "consciousness of the preciousness of life and how disaster can terminate that so suddenly...
Junior guard Elliott Prasse-Freeman shook off a poor offensive showing against Northeastern on Tuesday by burying his first three shots, all three-pointers...
...director Robert Mueller shook up the FBI today with the bureau's most dramatic reorganization since the post-Watergate reforms. In recognition of the new threats facing the U.S., counter-espionage, the bureau's bread and butter during the Cold War, has received an effective demotion. Dale Watson, who has been in charge of counter-terrorism, will move up to executive assistant director, supervising both C/T and counter-intelligence functions. Also, some resources are expected to be shifted from counter-intelligence to the war on terrorism...
...Sept. 11, the world shook with a tragedy so powerful that it seemed to overwhelm our senses. Since Sept. 11, a quieter tragedy has taken place: a quarter of a million people have died of AIDS. As we spend tens of billions of dollars to address terrorism and the aftermath of the attacks, let us not be deaf to the oft-ignored pleas of two generations of Africans—and increasing numbers of youth in Asia and worldwide—who face wholesale destruction from AIDS. Fully half of South Africa’s teenagers are projected...
...sunny spring morning, five members of the Aum Shinrikyo cult entered the Tokyo subway and pierced plastic packs of liquefied sarin gas with their umbrella tips, leaving 12 people dead and thousands injured. Only two months before, more than 5,000 people were killed by an earthquake that shook the western port city of Kobe. "Some strange malaise, some bitter aftertaste lingers on," writes novelist Haruki Murakami in his account of the times, Underground: The Tokyo Gas Attack and the Japanese Psyche. "We crane our necks and look around us, as if to ask: where did all that come from...