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...Josh could say that. In the fictional world of this playlet, everyone got a good scare, but no one got hurt, lost parents, saw dozens of office workers jump a thousand feet rather than burn to death. It was a lot easier for the fictional class on the screen to take his advice than for the figurative one at home. But that's one problem, with drama and with life, that even I can't blame Aaron Sorkin...
...shores--the rhetoric of impending battle was rendered into the humdrum details of military life. Bills were paid; kit bags packed; wives, husbands and children hugged. Patriotism hung in the air, as palpable as the first chills of fall; flags sprouted on a million lapels and fluttered from a thousand taxicabs in a wounded but defiant New York. On television, the reports came from Islamabad, not as they had a decade ago from Riyadh or Baghdad or Amman. And as predecessors in his high office--including his father--had done before, George W. Bush drove from the White House...
What do you feel, as a liberal muslim?" it's a question I have been asked repeatedly this week. Anguish, I reply, for the thousands who died and the several thousand others who loved and needed them. Then terror, fury, fear of the times to come, hatred for the perpetrators, vague guilt and, most of all, a kind of emotional homelessness. Western Muslims like me have become, yet again, the enemy within, for both sides. All Muslims are now seen as potential terrorists. People will shrink away from my son, who looks like a handsome Pathan. Abuse and attacks, already...
President Bush sounded the battle call last week for a war to be waged on a thousand fronts. The sprawling investigation now under way will help the White House shape a response: not only an attack of retribution against those who plotted this massacre but also a long line of moves designed to forestall future attacks. "This is a conflict without battlefields or beachheads, a conflict with opponents who believe they are invisible. Yet they are mistaken. They will be exposed," the President said last Saturday. "We will smoke them out of their holes." Secretary of State Colin Powell spread...
...Yarno, 49, a rental-car-agency manager in Bourbonnais, Ill., had long been planning a family vacation in Florida. Last week she scrapped the trip. "When I made the cancellations, it was like a thousand pounds was lifted off me," she says. A national company that provides janitorial services to office buildings--including the World Trade Center--was at a loss as to what to do when its workers began balking at using elevators or entering tall buildings...