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...watched the avalanche, even from behind the safety of a TV screen, knows how extraordinary it is that someone could survive it. New York City's medical examiners are still trying to identify 19,858 pieces smashed from the bodies of the 2,819 people who were slain. Steel beams weakened to their breaking point; solid concrete was pulverized. But somehow Genelle's tumbling body found an air pocket. She was buried in the rubble for more than 26 hours; on Sept. 12, around 12:30 p.m., she became the last of just four people caught in the debris...
...based on moral principles requires consistency, and Bush has not always displayed it. He calls for democracy in Iraq and Palestine--but not in such U.S.-friendly autocracies as Saudi Arabia. He is an avowed free-trader, but he has boosted domestic farm subsidies and protectionist tariffs on foreign steel. He has had to abandon many foreign policy campaign pronouncements in favor of policies closer to the allies'. He at first opposed international peacekeepers for Afghanistan but then agreed; at first opposed extending their mandate but then agreed; at first barred U.S. troops from joining the peacekeepers...
...Qaeda's early mortar volleys missed by hundreds of yards and then began closing in. Soldiers call it "walking in rounds"--staring in pained fascination as the enemy drops "steel rain" closer and closer to where you're hugging the ground. A shell landed 50 yards from Maroyka and nearly a dozen of his men. Maroyka felt blood and realized that a piece of shrapnel from the blast had nicked his face...
...religion, at least in the eyes of secularized society. Frank Lloyd Wright, Eero Saarinen and Louis Kahn all designed great and very spare modern churches. The sole foray into church design by Ludwig Mies van der Rohe, the great founding master of modernism, was a nondenominational chapel in brick, steel and glass built in 1952 on the campus of the Illinois Institute of Technology. To put it mildly, it's a parsimonious expression of faith. The man who said, "God is in the details," did not provide many here for God to be in. From the outside it looks something...
...Khoshal Khan A is a collection of jaggedly rising fragments of dismembered homes and disrupted lives, a dusty reflection of the twisted steel remains of the World Trade Center. In response to a day of destruction, New York marshalled billions of dollars to rebuild. Kabul has been torn apart for 23 years, and no such resources are at its disposal. The nascent government is struggling to establish a sense of order. The U.N., international donors and NGOs can't cover the nation's staggering needs, and their resources have been stretched by the largest ever return of refugees?1.6 million...