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...complicated that it all can’t be in one place. There was an initial “time out” from all forms of personal and political conflict as we absorbed the enormity of what had happened, tended to those affected by the enormous death toll and made ourselves busy in order to feel safer. No recent event has so powerfully reminded us of the shortness and uncertainty of human life and the preciousness of our connections to our family and friends...
...will be in this spirit that the bells of Memorial Church will not ring at 8:46 a.m.—though bells throughout the nation will toll at this time, exactly a year after the first plane hit the North Tower...
Lowell House, however, along with a number of other area institutions, will toll its bells...
...nation?s biggest banks and priciest jewelers, nerves are fraying. These are tough times for the Swiss financial services sector, which accounts for more than 10% of the nation?s gross domestic product and approximately 6% of jobs. The long slide of world stock markets is taking its toll on profitability and forcing bankers to work particularly hard to calm their well-heeled clients. Swiss banks have also borne the brunt of a successful tax amnesty mounted earlier this year by Giulio Tremonti, Italy?s Finance Minister. Italians repatriated assets valued at j52 billion, paying a symbolic 2.5% fine...
...reliable information), the annual suicide rate among college-age women has almost doubled, from 3.9 deaths per 100,000 to 7.0 per 100,000, while the rate among college-age men has tripled, from 10 per 100,000 to 32 per 100,000 a year. This year's toll for adults ages 19 to 24 is expected to reach 1,000 deaths...