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...traditions that make this city work. But the workers at Ground Zero don't have that option - they're stuck in a time warp, reliving that awful day again and again. They make it safe for the rest of us to go downtown and breathe the air and wonder at the cool efficiency of the cleanup effort. "It's amazing," we marvel to ourselves. "It's like a clean slate." The workers are carrying our demons for us, having removed them from our sight. They'll struggle to exorcise their memories of glass and steel and gore for longer than...
...again led a walkout in 1964 in support of a sacked colleague. "It was the fight for the fairness of things that got to me," Ferguson later told an interviewer. Sacked, humiliated or verbally roasted players and outmaneuvered club directors appear at regular intervals in The Boss to wonder at his concept of fairness. Yet at the heart of Ferguson's managerial success lies the fierce loyalty he evokes in his clubmates and which he repays with quiet encouragement and - ever the union man - a refusal to rebuke his players publicly for their misdemeanors on the pitch. Perhaps the most...
...issues were deadly serious, but the debate was not. No wonder there is growing support for a proposed blue-ribbon commission to sort through the questions. The politicians know some things are too important to be left in the hands of politicians...
Star Wars director George Lucas publicly lashed out against online movie trading last week, but some wonder whether he didn't do himself a disservice by shooting Star Wars: Episode II--Attack of the Clones entirely with digital cameras, thereby possibly making it easier for pirates to copy the movie. The Lucas camp contends it is taking full advantage of industry-adopted encryption safeguards that ensure digital releases sent to the few theaters with digital-projection booths cannot be displayed elsewhere. Future digital films may have additional defenses: the Motion Picture Association of America is looking into digital-projection technology...
Every time a plane flies low overhead we are now compelled to wonder if we’re watching the tool of imminent history fly by, while last August we might not have even noticed it. Like changing styles, thoughts that were paranoid last summer are today pragmatic and we quietly accept the fact that there is more terror in our country’s future. Uncertainty now occupies a permanent place in American life; fear has tacitly woven itself into the fabric of our daily routines...