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...instead of stories that reflect how 9/11 changed us, we have stories that help us flatter ourselves into believing that it did. The Flight 93 movies and World Trade Center, not to take anything away from them, cherry-picked the few triumphant stories of 9/11. They let us see it as a day when Americans tapped their strength, transformed and sacrificed--whether you and I, munching our Raisinets in the audience...
...four boat both captured national titles, giving the Crimson two gold medals on the weekend.HEAVYWEIGHTSThe last and best streak, at last, is over. For three consecutive years, the Harvard varsity heavyweights had turned Camden, into a one-boat show, dominating IRA competition and modifying the record books with each triumphant row on championship Saturday.For three consecutive years, the winner’s dock had room only for Crimson and gold, and every other boat was just scrambling for second place.But a season that began with a snapped streak—Harvard lost its first dual race since...
...cloth -cotton and wool and the synthetic materials of running shoes, warmed by young flesh. Between classes there is a thunder of movement; the noise is stretched thin over a violence beneath, barely restrained. Sometimes in the lull at the end of the school day, when the triumphant, jeering racket of departure has subsided and only the students doing extracurricular activities remain in the great building, Joryleen Grant comes up to Ahmad at his locker. He does track in the spring; she sings in the girls' glee club. As students go at Central High, they are "good." His religion keeps...
...Sprints title that had eluded them for three years.There was a pair of second-place finishes in 2003 and 2004 to accompany mounting expectations that this Princeton class might be one of the best ever. On Sunday, it was: the Tigers erased two years of frustration with a triumphant 2.5 second win over the Crimson, crossing in 5:44.03 to Harvard’s second-place time of 5:46.2. “It felt really good and it felt smooth,” Boston said. “But it was definitely missing something. We can?...
...Carter polled his top advisers. Most recommended that he do it. But when he also asked what they would do if the Iranians seized the embassy in retaliation, none answered. And when the thing actually happened, no one on any side was sure of exactly what to do. The triumphant but clueless students would hang on to the 52 frightened, angry Americans for 444 days, all the while making hapless attempts to prove that the embassy had been a cockpit of intrigue and espionage. Although for the most part the hostages were not subjected to torture, their detention and humiliation...