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...Bush said he wants bin Laden "dead or alive." While such words may be music to American ears, to others' they are tantamount to a war cry and smack of vengeance. Just after the attack, there was worldwide sympathy for the U.S. With the recent rhetoric, however, it is morphing into a sense of concern that an American-led all-out war could inflict further, heavy, unnecessary civilian casualties. We strongly oppose terror, but we aren't ready to support such a response...
...regular arrangement wasn’t close enough, local band Eloe Omoe (consisting of a drummer and bassist hailing from Charlestown) played smack-dab in the middle of the crowd, so that the closest spectators were standing literally inches away from a cymbal or bass amp. Despite not being quite as physically close as Eloe Omoe, the featured Chicago bands, My Name is Rar Rar and Lozenge, were able to eradicate any sense of distance that playing on stage would have normally produced...
However, while it might be good to repeat these basic truths, in many respects the rally was preaching to the choir. Aside from a few emotional outbursts soon after the bombing, all of our leaders condemn acts that smack of “indiscriminate violence,” and unlike the terrorists, none of them support the needless killing of innocents. Who would be opposed to “a reasoned, just and forward-looking response” to our national tragedy? The important question is what responses are reasonable, what actions are just—and on this question...
...smack into the class divide when she went from small-town life in Albert Lea to the University of Chicago. "It was major culture shock," she says. "There were ways of life that I had read books about, and fantasized about, but never imagined were real. I discovered how ignorant I was of the culture with a capital C." But, she adds, "I caught on eventually to how ignorant and provincial those people were. They knew nothing of my life...
...down, down, down with a clamor - only presaged the peanut-gallery response to what may be seen as one of the least popular Fed moves in a long, long time. Because while the steep-sloped graph of Fed rate cuts this year now shows a distinct leveling off - right smack in the middle of the weakest economic quarter in a decade - nowhere in the 200-word accompanying statement was any hint of why Alan Greenspan chose June 27, 2001 to ease off on the throttle...