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These two sentiments, both well-intentioned, came from sports sections whose pages were suddenly rendered insignificant last week, dwarfed in every respect by photographs of fire and rubble and bent steel, of the faces of helpless but somehow hopeful loved ones...
...time, we will clear away dust and rubble, and rebuild our fallen structures of concrete and steel. But to honor the men and women whose lives will never be rebuilt, it is the duty of the American people to have courage, and to make the fight against terror a part of our national will...
...talking about happy news. There is a sense among investors that something has definitely changed in the world, and not for the better. The peace dividend of the past decade - balanced budgets, tame long-term interest rates, sunny national mood - is buried under a million tons of steel, and for every cheer that may go up when George W. Bush makes his counterstrike there is a nagging fear, particularly in Europe, that if he doesn?t get Osama bin Laden he?s going to blow up a quarter of the world trying. A well-defined war can be good...
...story. The West seeds the world with metal oil barrels; the world sends them back as steel drums. For today's politically minded world musicians, this kind of appropriation is itself a political act, a direct echo of the challenge to non-Western cultures everywhere to become global without being globalized, to step on the world playing field without being ground into it. In today's global music, musical boundary hopping is often integral to a political message, as when Haiti's Boukman Eksperyans sets a Creole antiwar chant to the tune of Kyu Sakamoto's 1963 single Sukiyaki...
...which normal people become fierce heroes and everyone takes a test for which they haven't studied. As President Bush said in his speech to the nation, we are left with both a terrible sadness and a quiet unyielding anger. He was wrong, though, to talk of the steel of our resolve. Steel, we now know, bends and melts; we need to be made of something stronger than that now--not excluding an unseasoned President...