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...shirts. They are watching teenage drivers peeling rubber through traffic, calling friends on cell phones and discussing Osama. Sipping cappuccinos and downing milk shakes, they admit to mixed feelings about last month's devastating attacks on the U.S. because of the innocent lives that were taken. They even wonder whether it was really Osama who did it ("I hope that it was," says one). Mostly they express glee that the strikes made the U.S. pay a price for what they see as arrogant meddling in the Middle East, particularly in supporting Israel against the Palestinians...
...don’t-have-a-face-just-all-natural-copious-cleavage” has opened her shirt to show the world what a 60-day trial bottle of Bloussant did for her. I can see it now: I begin my daily get-ready regimen with a few Bloussant wonder pills only to have the “guaranteed” growth formula create a rash that the lovely nurses at UHS would diagnose as pregnancy for sure or, even worse, add a third useless boobie to the two I’ve already...
...this to my patients, my friends, the superintendent in my building as he repaints apartment 4D (whose tenant never came home), strangers in the street. I am surprised when people start saying it to me. I price gas masks on the Internet, consider prescribing myself emergency antibiotics. I wonder, horrified and hopeful, whether Club Med has dropped their prices, and can I go tomorrow? Suddenly, the escapism of my favorite television show, "Buffy the Vampire Slayer," is not so escapist. But I love it even more, because now I know what it?s like to have evil nearby...
...because I need to be reminded of what actually happened, now that this has become a fact of my life. I walk past that wall of Missing photos and messages outside Bellevue Hospital where I work every day, and am disturbed by having become almost immune to it. I wonder who decides whether to take it down, and how, and when that will happen...
...crisis well. But everyone is singing Bush’s praise as though they worried that the National Security Agency would be at their house with guns if they said anything bad about the government. In light of such a dramatic change, I can’t help but wonder if people mistakenly think that hating the terrorists is the same thing as loving Bush...