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...center of the teen-pop revolution, you enter an unmarked, soot-colored brownstone in Manhattan's Chelsea neighborhood. In his office on the 11th floor, behind his big wooden desk with its neatly organized stacks of CDs, Jive president Barry Weiss is a crackling wire of energy, jumping up to fetch a DVD from a shelf, scribbling memos, barking orders in a brisk, rat-tat-tat fashion. The walls of the native Long Islander's office are decorated with the trophies of two decades of conquests--half a dozen gold and platinum albums...
...angle then another, from below, from above, from the street corners on which I’ve stood and the restaurants at which I’ve eaten. The descriptions of all possible aspects of the disaster, the footage of survivors crouched behind cars and coated in white soot (while the newscaster babbles on about the symbolism of “American Capitalism Under Attack”—a real movie title, isn’t it?), and the endless screaming photos on the front page of each newspaper, photos of my home city swallowed by a cloud...
Under the smoke, New York City remains, choking in soot and rubble. The city bleeds from multiple wounds; it has lost a part of itself. With the crumbling of these towers, the city has been made a victim. Terror has bonded its citizens in struggle and hope, but it has forced them to mourn...
...Donald also writes that "in Illinois, blacks have a higher motorist-fatality rate than whites." And blacks do have more fatal traffic accidents per mile driven than whites, but the difference is negligible. According to Siim Soot, the transportation expert at the University of Illinois at Chicago from whom Mac Donald obtained her data, in 1990 whites in Illinois had .014 fatalities per million miles driven while the rate for Illinois blacks was .015 per million. Latinos in the state did have a much higher rate--.022--but Soot's sample of Latinos was quite small. "The conclusions here...
...Whatever progress Beijing may make assumes, of course, that it can complete $20 billion in stadiums on what is now farmland, a $12 billion water-treatment system that is still a blueprint and an air-cleanup program to purify an atmosphere so filled with soot that the skies periodically rain mud. Beijing has no history of building such facilities effectively. Its most high-profile construction project of the past decade, Oriental Plaza in the city center, was so rife with corruption that an investigation brought down Beijing's party chief and nearly the whole city leadership. The I.O.C...