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...horrible thing that this is where our energies need to be pulled," says Cheri Sparacio, 37, the widow of Thomas Sparacio, a currency trader at Euro Brokers who died in Tower 2. In their modest house in Staten Island, littered with the toys of her twin two-year-olds, she explains why she sees the estimated $138,000 she would get from the fund as a cheap bribe. "The government is not taking any responsibility for what it's done. This was just one screw-up after another." She is also worried about her financial stability; in less than...
...terrible mistake has been made," says Uruzgan businessman Abdul Ghani. All the dead, including the twin leaders of the military commission Haji Sanagul and Qadous Khan Jahadwal, had been appointed by the provincial government. "They were not Taliban, they were a military commission working with (Interim Prime Minister) Hamid Karzai," says schoolteacher and Uruzgan elder Farou Khan. The men slaughtered in Sharzam High School had been loyal to Hamid Karzai's interim government. Karzai's brother, Ahmed Wali Karzai, says he knew six or seven of them personally. Qadous Khan Jahadwal, he says, "had been with us for 23 years...
...World Trade Center--some of the dead held dual nationality, and some undoubtedly were illegal immigrants--but the number was certainly substantial. David Usborne, a reporter for the Independent of London who has made a careful study of the casualty lists, reckons that about 150 Muslims died in the Twin Towers. Not all the victims were from nations whose people are tired and poor. Between 80 and 100 Britons were killed, and so were 22 Japanese. Niall O'Dowd, publisher of the Irish Voice, a weekly based in New York, is writing a book on the hundreds of Irish Americans...
...intersession destination that can only be reached in a, well, “altered” state of mind. Indeed, von Oeyen would be a great spokesman for designer drugs, if it weren’t for the vivid gloom of despair creeping into his spellbinding “Twin Soliloquies...
...statement, however, Jeb Bush indicated that his daughter's case may be more worrisome than the underage drinking that got her cousins, the twin daughters of President George W. Bush, into trouble last summer in Texas. Calling Noelle's situation "a very serious problem," the president's brother referred to "substance abuse" and asked "the public and the media to respect our family's privacy during this difficult time." Bush's wife, Columba, heads Informed Families of Florida, which educates parents about the dangers of drug abuse...