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...that there is evidence we are willing to do the hard work by choice, not just because we have to. And so the year can end, and the fires go out at last at ground zero, and Liberty Island reopens, and soldiers guarding the airport at Kandahar drape mine tape on tumbleweed for a Christmas tree and raise a huge American flag, inscribed with the names of slain men and women. Our job is by no means finished. But Rudy Giuliani's is, not because his term is ending but because maybe we have passed the first test as well...
...Broadway show The Music Man and a lottery for trips to Hawaii and Barbados. To unwind one evening after inspecting a gas leak, the firemen watch outtakes from The Bravest, a TV show chronicling the lives of fire fighters with real footage from New York companies; they pause the tape every few minutes to honor the men they instinctively refer to as "missing...
...obscure art of Arabic translating got a workout last week as two news organizations released new versions of the Osama bin Laden tape. The State Department translation was a collaboration among several experts that left a lot of holes as "unintelligible." But experts hired by ABC and CNN have since reviewed the text. Among the revelations from the new passages: bin Laden names nine of the hijackers; he told followers to listen to the radio for a news bulletin hours before the attacks; and the sheik being honored at the dinner that night was sneaked into Afghanistan by a member...
...Americans who spent this season peering rifle-first into caves, tiptoeing through the minefields, helping Afghanistan take another shot at freedom and America strike back in the name of thousands of innocent dead. To the men and women opening letters instead of gifts, and draping festive mine tape on a tumbleweed Tannenbaum. I won't pretend to know for sure whether you're lucky to be there or I'm lucky to be home - maybe neither, maybe both. We'd all be luckier, I suppose, if none of this were necessary, if Osama bin Laden had stayed a businessman...
CIRCUIT CITY MESSAGE People can tape 30-sec. video messages for the troops at participating Circuit City stores. Some greetings will...