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...influx of summer tourists to D. C.—generally a highly patriotic group of people to start with—should have caught the eye of the Smithsonian as the ideal audience for a commemorative exhibit. Admittedly, the American public does have a short attention span, but nothing could be more appropriate to give a high priority to than to memorialize the victims and heroes of Sept. 11. Beginning with this show would have been an excellent start...
...that he also has an incongruously soft and liberal streak. He lives in a modest house on a quiet street. He sends food to Muslim communities during Ramadan and to Catholic communities at Christmas. Almost every day in his office he receives constituents seeking assistance. In one 10-minute span, he gives a mother the bus fare to her home village, counsels a woman seeking a job and tenderly tells a young, badly scarred burn victim that he will pay for her operation and follow-up treatment. (Duterte is known to deliver on such promises.) He is politically correct...
Fitzpatrick obliged and lobbed a pass that Morris corralled over the Big Green cornerback for a 32-yard TD. And just like that, in a span of 18 seconds, Morris had played a prominent role in slicing a 21-0 deficit to a 21-14 score. On the next Crimson drive, Morris caught a 40-yard pass over the middle of the field to set up the equalizing score...
...matter how you look at it, 50 years is a very, very long time, the span of two generations, as a matter of fact, half a century to be precise. It is no wonder, then, that the manners and mores of that early time would be considered not only antiquated but rather quaint. For those of us who lived through those times, however, they were up-to-date and decidedly groovy...
...photos offer no evidence of the debris typical of a plane crash (discounting expert explanations that the violence of the impact and heat of the explosion caused virtual atomization of the jet) and says the area of destruction to the Pentagon is impossibly small, given the size and span of the craft...