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...wonder, then, that the National Retail Federation predicted a decidedly uncheery holiday shopping season, cutting its sales growth outlook for the fourth quarter from 4% to 2.2%--a forecast that may still be overly optimistic. Or that luxury department store Bergdorf Goodman has canceled the remainder of its fall orders...
...good times New York is not actually a Sex and the City episode. Mostly, singles look at each other across crowded rooms and sit in frozen wonder at the presumed conversational chasm between them. But with tragedy as a common bond, "What to Talk About" has not been a problem. "I was struck by how easily we could just jump into a conversation," says Allison Brown, 34, a lawyer who chatted up a stranger in a cafe the day after the disaster. "We started talking, and it was only about what had happened, but it was in the context...
...believer in organized religion. Still, something about the sight of priest and rabbi, monk and imam, started me thinking. It would be a triumph if a new unity came out of this act of hatred. It's already occurring politically: witness the current bipartisanship in Washington. I wonder whether the many arbitrary distinctions between people could be forgotten once and for all. If we could emphasize the links among us instead of the divisions, then I believe we will have foiled the terrorists. JENNIFER FRANK Morristown...
Arrested in August on immigration charges while trying to get jet-simulator training in Minneapolis, Zacarias Moussaoui should have been a warning to feds. A suspected terrorist in his native France, he traveled to Afghanistan in the mid-'90s. The feds wonder if he was supposed to be on Flight 93. He has been flown to New York City for questioning. Khalid Al-Draibi was detained not far from Dulles airport the night of the attacks. He reportedly tried to rush training at flight schools in Alabama and Kansas...
...restructuring its internal life so that all social practices, corporations and institutions were being judged not only on whether they maximized profit but also to the extent that they maximized love and caring, sensitivity and an approach to the universe based on awe and wonder at the grandeur of creation. Imagine a new Social Responsibility Amendment to the U.S. Constitution that would make a corporation's ability to operate in the U.S. dependent on its ability to prove a history of social responsibility both in the U.S. and around the world...