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...make those distinctions," says Kenneth Feinberg, the man with the unenviable task of divvying up the Victim Compensation Fund. "Every life is valuable. I will not play Solomon." Luckily, he doesn't have to - there is nothing Solomonic about a decision to treat people fairly, regardless of their station in life...
There are some press outside. I grab [Andrew] Kirtzman [a reporter for NY1, a local cable-news station] by the arm and say, "We're taking you with us." Some of them look a little stunned. I begin holding an ad-hoc walking press conference in which I tell people to remain calm and go straight north...
...work inside the "red zone"--the area of devastation still off limits to the public. Workers there have put up a Christmas tree and an iron cross found in the wreckage; the New York Board of Rabbis erected a Star of David. A wooden platform used as a viewing station for families of the victims is covered with messages they have written with felt pens...
Nothing seemed to cement Bush's reputation as a foreign policy novice more than the quick interview he did with a Boston TV station in 1999. Betting he could catch the presidential hopeful off guard, a local reporter asked Bush to name the Pakistani leader who had just come to power by military coup. "General," Bush replied. "I can't name the general. General...
...still wish I was there. I had a brush with your kind of service - more of tease, really - when my unit reported to Egypt this October for Exercise Bright Star. There was plenty of talk that it was just a way station, that our two weeks in the sands had an option to buy another six months in the mountains and caves, but it never happened. Not our turn...