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...imagine the Statue of Liberty looking at the New York City skyline with a tear in one eye and steely resolve in the other." LOUISE L. BROOKS Williston...
...destroyed local shops and diplomatic missions. Koroma went on to oust the freely elected president of Sierra Leone, Ahmad Tejan Kabbah because he was dissatisfied with Kabbah’s inability to secure peace in a country that had seen constant fighting for the past seven years. Determined to tear down the existing governmental regime with maximum speed and strength, Koroma reinstated Foday Sankoh to a leadership position in RUF after he had been in exile in nearby Nigeria for starting the civil...
...Assembled in the hall are thousands of the walking wounded--the hollow-eyed mothers, lovers, brothers of people who went to work two days ago and disappeared. They answer police officers' questions, they hand over dental records, they describe the meaning of obscure tattoos, they feel sick, they tear up, they pick at ham sandwiches. But only very rarely does someone begin to weep...
...demonstration breaks up after another speaker says Pakistan's president Perez Musharraf is destined to "die like a dog" for promising to support the US in its military operations. A small group of youths tear off down the narrow alleys, overturning fruit carts and banging on the metal shutters of the small shops. But the helmeted riot police do not intervene - they know that today was little more than a stage rehearsal for the anger and violent protests expected after the bombs start falling. And then there will be no apologizing for stepping on someone else's foot...
...image of the World Trade Center will also have the vital power to tear us away from any inclination to forget our vulnerability, the hatred for America that exists in so many other parts of the world. Just as pictures of the Berlin Wall remind us of a time when political division and fear brought the world to the nuclear brink, images of the World Trade Center will focus our anger and sadness into action against terrorists. To erase those images would allow America to push last week’s tragedy from its immediate consciousness, thereby diminishing its long...