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...blocked off by a fence covered with pictures and cards, and each provides a different glimpse into the Twin Towers wreck. Some views are better than others—John Street and Dey Street are particularly good—and hundreds of tourists move from block to block and stare as if they were moving from exhibit to exhibit at the Met. There are signs prohibiting video and photography but, just like at any NYC tourist attraction that forbids them, the violations are rampant...
Later that day I walk across the Brooklyn Bridge and stop midway, to look back at the skyline. There isn’t much to see from there unless you happen to remember exactly where the towers were two months ago. I stare out at the water and watch the ferries coming and going from Staten Island. The last time I took the ferry, I came out only to see a big minor league baseball banner calling Staten Island “The Home of the New York-Penn League Champion Staten Island Yankees.” That?...
...brings together previously published essays from the world’s front lines in a stunningly rich montage of people and death. In essence, it is a book about voyeurism—about our need to watch from the front lines of a war or to stare transfixed at dancing flames of fire—but the underlying messages go far deeper...
...years of heartbreak will stare the Harvard football team in the face when it takes the field tomorrow...
...That use is never a secret. At each of the route’s mileposts - from the Hopkinton town green to the finish line set into the ground in Boston’s Copley plaza—enormous color pictures of Dana Farber’s youngest patients stare and smile back. Some are dangerously, distressingly thin; some have only wisps of hair remaining. But they’re all smiling...