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...from their Protestant neighbors that began with insults and spit and within days escalated to bricks and blast bombs. Scores of police and soldiers were injured protecting the children. As the chaos spread, a Protestant school bus was stoned, and a Catholic motorist--apparently reacting to stone-throwing attacks--struck and killed a Protestant teenager...
...Schumer and Hillary Clinton of New York, and John Warner and George Allen of Virginia - walked into the Oval Office for a private meeting with Bush. Bush "seemed very calm, confident, relaxed and in charge," New York's senior senator told to me later. Schumer and the others were struck by how the private Bush seemed so much more the commander in chief and the dominant figure - a far cry from the the-deer-in-headlights aura he gave off in some TV shots immediately following the attack...
...boomers feel when they recall first hearing Chuck Berry's Johnny B. Goode. Two years ago, Orishas introduced a new song, 537 Cuba, that transformed the stately Cuban classic Chan Chan (a universally recognized tune among Cubans, like Guantanamera) into a rollicking American-style hip-hop anthem. The song struck a chord; young fans began eagerly trading bootleg tapes of the group and flocking to their concerts. Orishas' fame rose so rapidly that last year the group was invited to the presidential palace to meet Fidel Castro. "So you are the ones who have been making so much noise," said...
Thus began for all of us a day that will live as much in infamy as Dec. 7, 1941. Terrorism has struck America before, but never this brazenly and never with such heartbreaking destruction. As my colleagues and I watched the horrific events, we decided to devote a special issue to memorializing this day and to get it into our readers' hands as quickly as possible...
...filled with grieving Americans singing America the Beautiful, wiping away streams of tears. "Humanity came apart in lower Manhattan today, and each of us is wounded. We mourn the loss of our innocence," declared Rabbi Gary Gerson at Oak Park Temple, a Reform Jewish congregation outside Chicago. "Terror has struck us, but it will not destroy us. Now we are all Israelis," he added...