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...York home before sharing a military transport plane to D.C.) Bush then traveled to ground zero in downtown Manhattan. He picked up a bullhorn, slung his arm around one rescue worker and spoke to the others--and to the world--with a grace that was both convincing and, somehow, unmistakably American. "The people who knocked down these buildings," he said, "are going to hear all of us soon." He didn't insist that he was resolute. He didn't have...
...estimate just what the emotional cost might be. Around the country, normally well-adjusted people have found themselves jumping at shadows, avoiding crowds, giving in to little rituals (take the subway to work but the bus home in the evening) that provide not a jot of real protection but somehow offer them an irrational reassurance that if another plane comes screaming out of the sky, maybe it won't be coming for them or their loved ones...
...focus. Tamar Kaman, a cosmetics marketer who lives three blocks away, cried as she added flowers to the pile. "This is as close as I've gotten to some of the victims," she said. "Whether or not I can identify all the faces, I feel connected to the grief somehow." This is what a firehouse does in a time of disaster. First it puts out flames. And then it generates warmth. --By James Poniewozik. Reported by Harriet Barovick...
What truly enraged me, however, were comments made by a Harvard worker at the rally who heartlessly failed to mourn the deaths of management from the attacks and foolishly lamented that workers are somehow victimized during wartime at the expense of “Big Business, the White House and the military.” How can anybody take the rally’s speakers seriously if this is their mindset...
It’s disheartening to hear someone as insightful and rational as a Harvard student try to summarize the attacks of last Tuesday into a quaint rationale: Too Much Testosterone. Asserting that raw biology somehow transcends other psychological and societal trends that may cause rage, fanaticism and, ultimately, desperate violence invites almost a directly opposing response: if men are savage brutes, controlled by their hormonal and emotional status and tempered only by women, then women are by nature incapable of anything in the realm of aggressiveness. Isn’t this just as blatantly sexist an assumption...