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...volunteers descended on the still-burning remains of the World Trade Center, and began the painstaking task of recovery. Eight and a half months later, it's over. And for what was done over these past months, and its influence on the news of that time, the Ground Zero worker is our Person of the Week...
...Just a few took active part in this final ceremony. But in the beginning, in the first days after the attacks, each worker came to Ground Zero carrying something: A fear, an aching void, an ineffable rage. Firefighters turned up in memory of fallen colleagues. Police officers arrived clutching photographs of their dead. Fathers and brothers and sisters came for the backbreaking work, hoping perhaps to sweat out some of their tears...
...announcement can't come soon enough for the locals, who find the whole process maddeningly bureaucratic. Meanwhile, a garishness is sweeping into town. Flight 93 trinkets are popping up everywhere, including Ida's Country Store on Main Street, and visitors talk of touring the nation's "disaster circuit"--ground zero, the Pentagon, Oklahoma City and Columbine...
...Cuomo, the front runner among Democratic contenders, has been criticizing Pataki's management of the rebuilding effort. Pataki's aides say he's indifferent to Cuomo's taunts. The Governor is well ahead in the polls. But he also knows that by November he needs real momentum at ground zero. At the same time, Pataki can't afford to speed things along so briskly that the families go public with complaints that he's driving bulldozers over their grief...
...quarter-century ago. But with schools suspending nearly twice as many pupils as they did in the early '70s, the racial disparities have widened sharply. And today the penalties are stiffer. In the post-Columbine era, which has seen administrators reach for one-strike-and-you're-out, or zero-tolerance, policies, many schools no longer grant students a warning and a second chance, turning over even the most routine disciplinary matters to local police. "Schools now call in the police if a student is talking too much or doesn't do his homework," says Pedro Noguera, a professor...