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...though this world, with devils filled, Should threaten to undo us, We will not fear, for God hath willed His truth to triumph through...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Mourning In America | 9/24/2001 | See Source »

Much hinges on things we can't know. For example, will there be more such assaults? Will U.S. retaliation spur broad unrest in the Muslim world and perhaps threaten oil supplies? Until these questions are resolved, investors and consumers will sit on their wallets. Meanwhile, what we do know is plainly awful. Consumer confidence, already at an eight-year low before last Tuesday, will fall further. George Mees Jr., owner of GEM Floor Sanding Service in Villa Park, Ill., had a sale fall through just hours after the attacks. "I'm sure to get cancellations," he says. "Nobody's going...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Up From The Ashes | 9/24/2001 | See Source »

...Then he set about replacing a shadowy, stateless organization with something Americans are more used to dealing with: the villainous leadership of a country, a leadership we can despise, a Milosevic, a Saddam. Someone we can threaten - and if necessary, punish - before frustration sets...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Bush Speech: How to Rally a Nation | 9/21/2001 | See Source »

Home schooling doesn't threaten public education. Public schools threaten public education. CYNTHIA STEINWEDEL Peoria...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters: Sep. 17, 2001 | 9/17/2001 | See Source »

Taking the position that patriotism can threaten democracy, Nicholas C. Murphy ’02 wrote, “If we let our sorrow and rage blind us, if we begin to sacrifice those things that bind us together as Americans and perhaps more importantly human beings for the sake of retribution, we have compounded the tragedy one hundred fold, for we have then allowed a few murderous zealots to undo in one day what we have worked almost 250 years to build...

Author: By Lauren R. Dorgan, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Display of American Flag Stirs Campus Debate | 9/17/2001 | See Source »

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