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...stakes are as high as they can get. No wonder Bush looked the way he did Tuesday. He disappeared for precious hours in a bunker in Nebraska, which cost more precious hours the next day, as his aides tried to quiet criticism from his allies on the Hill that he should have returned immediately to the White House. (Senator Chuck Hagel reminded his colleagues that "this isn't a John Wayne movie," and he was right.) But this was the wrong time for spinning...
Maybe we can. Americans are generally unfriendly to security measures that intrude too much on their privacy. But that was before last week, before they saw the crematoriums in New York City and Washington and started to wonder if the next dive-bombing airliner could be aimed at them. If ever there was a time when they might be receptive to trimming their accustomed freedoms, that time...
...country may be moving close enough to glimpse it. The repeated slow-motion images of the towers swooning and buckling, the shots of victims tarred and feathered with blood and dust, the very ordinariness of the workday exploding into a doomsday may exact a psychological toll as people wonder whether the same hell will be visited on them...
...fellow Americans feel. And I dont mean Arab-Americans and Muslims, though of course they are in great danger, and we must all oppose their persecutionvery loudly. I mean African-Americans and gay men and lesbians and members of way too many other groups, all of whom must wonder, if not daily, then far too frequently, whether they will be targets one day, not because of who they are, but because of what they are and despite who they...
...After all that has just passed, all the lives taken and all the possibilities and hopes that died with them, it is natural to wonder if America's future is one of fear? Americans are asking, 'What is expected...