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...paradox of our post-9/11 "reprioritizing": America - credit-addicted, 25-brands-of-toothpaste-on-the-shelf America - cannot afford for us to examine our lives too closely. Our way of life is predicated on our not taking stock; not getting off the career-overtime-promotion hamster wheel; not, God forbid, living each day as if it might be our last. Because who would spend that day in an airless cubicle or on the 8:30 to Denver? We needed to believe that civilian, commuter-consumer life is heroic. And Flight 93--a weekday flight carrying largely business travelers - rendered...
...eight hours, and by midnight, most of the dozen passengers were already asleep in their bunks, rocked by the gentle motion of the waves. Haji, the 68-year-old, one-eyed captain, was up in the darkened bridge, sitting cross-legged on a stool to the right of the wheel, making constant and almost imperceptible adjustments to the course of the ship. Navigational instruments?radar, sonar and GPS?glowed faintly on the control panel, but Haji paid them no heed. He has been sailing these waters since his youth; subtle changes in the shape of the coast and the position...
...Because crime scence security was non-existent - a policeman sat in the driver's seat and used the bloody steering wheel to drive the limping vehicle away - few answers are likely to be found in the destroyed interior. More, however, may be gleaned elsewhere. One question is what happened to the guards on the gate, eight to ten of whom were taken into police custody as witnesses. Doctor Zia, the chief of police district nine, which covers the ministry compound, said that the guards had left their post for a lunch break at the time of the attack. They belonged...
...World Cup brings to the surface character aspects buried in the most atavistic nooks of a nation's psyche. Some people will say that this is all psychobabble and hackneyed, but for me it is more like Taoism - trying to comprehend the empty space at the center of the wheel that makes the World Cup go round. Really. It's there, somewhere, but we can't see it, so we talk about...
...Barreling down a narrow street in Beijing in a silver 2002 Toyota Landcruiser, Jiang has his CD player blaring The Red Detachment of Women, a cacophonous propaganda ballet from the 1960s. With his assistant at the wheel, Jiang turns around to explain gleefully his fondness for the revolutionary score. Born in 1963 in China's central Hebei province, Jiang was the son of a senior captain in the People's Liberation Army. The family moved house a lot. Jiang affectionately recalls the rustic province of Guizhou where cured hams hung inside neighbors' homes and unattended warehouses of machine parts became...