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...markets are now closed after the first day of trading since last Tuesday’s tragedy, and economic analysts have breathed a sigh of relief. Though the 680-point drop in the Dow Jones Industrial Average was the largest in the history of the index, it was much smaller in percentage terms than the crash of 1987—which did not bring substantial economic distress. The financial world experienced severe personal and physical loss in the terrorist attack of Sept. 11, but like the country as a whole, it seems intent on rebuilding and moving forward...
...lesson about name calling: "I'd go to the beach, but I have to answer some slut who wants my advice. Like how that felt? ... Accept that you hurt like hell, that you need time to mend, and resist the urge to do anything that would make your dignity sigh in despair...
...gotten lost twice, you’ve climbed over more smelly bridges than you care to count, and you just want to take a picture of the Basilica of San Marco to show your mother. You stumble into a square filled with squawking pigeons and camera-clad tourists and sigh with relief. But there’s something wrong. San Marco’s on fire...
...established his teeming, magical and mythological style, which somehow never lost its sense of intimacy, nor its intense invocation of place. Seldom has a city been so strongly, affectionately and vividly portrayed as the Bombay of Midnight’s Children and the Moor’s Last Sigh. Rushdie has only relatively recently emerged from hiding following the unilateral death warrant that was issued by Imam Khomeini of Iran after the publication of The Satanic Verses, and Fury is Rushdie’s first book since this emergence. What Rushdie calls fury abounds in the minor, miniscule details...
...have a watch, but I knew it was roughly 9 a.m. Some 50,000 people work in those buildings. How many of them had just sat down their computer, turned it on and were dialing to check their voice mail? I breathed a sigh of relief that I knew no one who worked in that building and quietly said a series of "Hail Marys" under my breath...