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...English teacher after Hilary was born, and now works two days a week at the Avon public library. She is the one who races around to the parade of after-school lessons and practices. George had a grueling commute--two hours each way, leaving on the 5:35 a.m. train--but on evenings and weekends he was all Hilary's, supervising homework assignments, shooting hoops. You can see the closeness of the father-daughter bond in the photographs around Hilary's room. Hilary and George skiing, kayaking, golfing and eating chocolate cake. In one image, yellowing a bit from...
...stairs. Lieut. Mickey Kross, who survived with a group of his fellow fire fighters in the lower part of stairway B that didn't collapse, recalls in Report from Ground Zero (Viking) that "there is now a sense of tremendous energy, like being on a locomotive track with a train coming at you." Something big comes through one wall at Genelle and Rosa and pushes them back. They fall, but Rosa recovers her footing. Genelle stays on the floor and starts to crawl downward. All this happens quickly, but there is time for them to separate. Rosa moves...
...Alliance soldiers guarding air force headquarters and demanded to be let in. "Go home, Auntie," said the guards, shooing her away. "Get out, go home." The petite woman didn't budge. "I am not your aunt!" she shouted, tearing off her burqa and tossing it to the ground. "I train soldiers. I am Khatol!" Hearing that name, the guards apologized and, too flustered even to salute, opened the gates. Khatol Muhammadzai is the highest-ranking woman in Afghanistan's air force and the country's first and only female parachutist. That day, after more than five long years of forced...
...seems Soul Train isn't used to criticism. When the 32-year-old dance show was the subject of a Web petition protesting its choice of Ashanti as 2002 entertainer of the year, it railroaded the opposition. Rommel Zamora, 15, who gathered more than 25,000 electronic "signatures," was attacked on soultrain.com and, he claims, in an obscenity-laden e-mail from a show employee. Though the show's creator, Don Cornelius, told TIME he didn't authorize any such e-mail, he's still eager to bury Zamora: "It's a patriarchal syndrome when any 15-year-old nonblack...
...INDICTED. Seattle-based Islamic activist JAMES UJAAMA, 36, for conspiring to recruit, train and provide facilities for al-Qaeda terrorists in the United States; by a federal grand jury in Seattle. Ujaama, who denies any wrongdoing, has alleged that the U.S. government "knew about the events of Sept. 11 prior to the attack on New York, and refused to intervene in lieu of economic and political gains." He is in federal custody at an undisclosed location...