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...turn of the century newspaper strips, In the Shadow of No Towers takes a similar, (co)mixed-up approach. Any one of Spiegelman's pages will use a multiplicity of styles to simultaneously recount his September 11 memories - he lives in downtown New York on the outskirts of Ground Zero - with considerations of the catastrophe's geo-political and personal aftermath...
...nearby middle school, watching as the second tower collapses - the later strips are more abstract. Spiegelman laments what he sees as the co-opting of September 11 to justify further polarizing acts of war. "Why did those provincial American flags have to sprout out of the embers of Ground Zero? Why not a globe," asks the author. Unlike much 9/11-related art, including many comix (see carets above for TIME.comix coverage), No Towers takes exceptional interest in the political consequences of a political act that is often dumbed down to a mere "attack on freedom." It's a strong tonic...
Speaking just miles from Ground Zero, Bush repeatedly invoked the attacks of Sept. 11 and said he had spent the past three years making the world safer by defeating the Taliban in Afghanistan and toppling the government of Saddam Hussein in Iraq...
...back, but he insisted on competing, against his coaches' advice, reasoning that you don't dedicate 13 years of your life to a sport only to pull out. During one of his dives, the Utah native's foot scraped the board. Another awkward plunge resulted in a score of zero, and Wilcock ended the night at the bottom of the 3-m springboard preliminary competition. "Just competing is what's important," he says. "I knew I had to live my Olympic dream...
REVEREND BILLY Flanked by members of the "Church of the First Amendment," this actor turned activist will lead a half-hour recitation of the First Amendment--the group will talk into cell phones to avoid looking like protesters--near Ground Zero...