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...gunman, Abdul Rahman, 22, who was part of Sherzai's security detail, raised his weapon and pumped several rounds into the car. Amazingly, Karzai managed to duck the bullets. One grazed Sherzai's neck, and another struck a U.S. soldier. A nearby youth, 19, by some accounts the one who had moved forward to greet Karzai, shoved Rahman to the ground. The U.S. commandos then bounded out of their vehicle and opened fire. Rahman, the youth and an Afghan bodyguard died in the fusillade. Back in Kabul that night, Karzai seemed unfazed by his brush with death but aware that...
...Hitler. ("The man is like an electric shock," says an ever-more-admiring Shulse.) But Address Unknown is more than a portrait of a failed friendship or a tale of Nazism's rise. Without giving away too much, let me say that a death is avenged and a blow struck against a rising evil, both with great subtlety. And the weapons, fittingly, are letters. Now the real story. Address Unknown first appeared in 1938 in the U.S. magazine Story and caused a sensation. A year later it was issued as a book, became a bestseller and was promptly banned...
...world paused at 8:46 a.m. to honor the moment the first plane struck the North Tower, gusts of wind sent clouds of dust into the air, eerily reminding onlookers of another bright September morning when the sky filled with dust and debris...
That ceremony will commence with a moment of silence at 8:46 a.m., the moment the first plane struck the World Trade Center. The moment of silence will be followed by a reading of the Gettysburg Address by New York Gov. George Pataki...
Family members of victims will perform readings at 9:03 a.m. and 9:59 a.m. to mark the moment when the second plane struck and the moment when the South Tower collapsed, respectively...