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...Friday Bush was getting bigger. He gave a speech at the Washington National Cathedral prayer service that impressed even Democrats who can't stand him. Al Gore--at Bush's invitation--was sitting two rows behind him during the service, silently making the point that the once vast differences did not matter anymore. (The attack even brought a reconciliation between Gore and Bill Clinton. The two sat up till dawn talking about it at Clinton's New York home before sharing a military transport plane to D.C.) Bush then traveled to ground zero in downtown Manhattan. He picked...
...guided missile? The answer, in part, is that the air-security system in the U.S. is porous in so many ways that a breach was not surprising--only the incomprehensible dimension of it. For aviation experts, who are all too familiar with the gaping holes in the nation's vast network of 100 large airports, there was a sad, easy explanation for Sept. 11: you get what...
...targeted with such staggering precision and viciousness because the city, more than any other, actually does live up to the demonic Taliban caricature. We are the bin Ladenites' worst nightmare. We are rich. We swagger. We enjoy ourselves. From Wall Street to the media conglomerates of Midtown to the vast immigrant neighborhoods in all the boroughs, we embody the power and the glory of globalization. We are a profoundly secular city; nowhere else in America are people freer to worship their own gods or to be godless. No place outside Israel has more Jews. Blasphemy is common, irreverence is obligatory...
...close college friends were safe. On Tuesday I was stunned, depressed, and scared, he recounts. To this moment it is still in some sense unbelievable. But at the time, I needed to do something, for my own sake. What began as a dozen names quickly grew as the vast and powerful network of Harvard alumni struggled to find their...
...importance of the complex relationship between subject and narrator and lay the groundwork to delve into how to understand and express this relationship. But in some ways Gornick misses this golden opportunity. As a premier essayist with a large body of work to her name, Gornick has a vast supply of personal essays which she could draw upon to explain how she searches for this narrative persona in her own life. Who better to explain where she triumphed and where she fell short than the writer herself...