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Late Sunday morning, early in my rainy drive back to Harvard from a weekend with my family in New Jersey, I saw the New York skyline smudged gray against the charcoal sky. The Twin Towers of the World Trade Center were, of course, not there. And, at first, their absence didn’t register...
When Zacarias Moussaoui was enrolled in flight school in Eagan, Minn., he could have easily looked up in the sky to see the kind of airplane he wanted to fly. Along the approach to the Minneapolis-St. Paul airport, 747s screamed overhead day and night. His flight instructor at Pan Am International Flight Academy found Moussaoui genial but clueless and totally unable to explain why he wanted to pilot a 747. The school's administration called the FBI, and he was arrested nearby on Aug. 16, 2001. When investigators interviewed the 33-year-old French Moroccan and asked him whether...
...much of its money and is about to rework its charter--"the BBC is having to justify itself in too many directions at once," says Anthony Smith, president of Magdalen College, Oxford, and a former BBC producer. Commercial media rivals like News Corp, which controls the satellite-TV network Sky, vent that the BBC's subsidy gives it an unfair advantage with which to expand into their territory. "The BBC is probably under more hostile attack than it ever has been in its history," says Steven Barnett, a professor of communications at the University of Westminster...
With the sun up in the sky and the market all but closed down, it was time to head back to Cambridge, and, more specifically, to bed. I pulled my car out past the guard house, barely avoiding a Shaw’s supermarket semi that was pulling away from Building C full of potatoes and red onions. Honestly, I was a bit hungry...
...legacy of Veronica Guerin are different. In Ireland her murder--believed to have been ordered by drug thugs she had exposed--cued mourning of an intensity that rivaled Princess Diana's the following year. Guerin (rhymes with cheerin') has been the subject of two films, the fictionalized When the Sky Falls, with Joan Allen in the lead role, and now a smartly mounted and modulated biopic, Veronica Guerin, starring Cate Blanchett...