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Shortly after the first plane hit the north tower of the World Trade Center, reporter Mitch Frank grabbed his camera and left his Brooklyn Heights, N.Y., apartment, running west. Within 10 minutes he was interviewing eyewitnesses on the scene. In Understanding September 11th: Answering Questions About the Attacks on America, Frank writes for readers in their teens about the events of that day and the history leading...
...following last year's World Series, when he announced plans to eliminate several teams even as the newly-crowned Diamondbacks were still unlacing their grass-stained shoes. Then, midway through the 2002 season, Selig made the disastrous decision to call the All-Star Game, which was tied in the 11th inning, because both teams had run out of pitchers. He was booed in Milwaukee, where he was once a hero (for recruiting the Brewers away from Seattle). Fans were outraged, call-in radio shows were in an uproar and a few days later Selig promised never to make that mistake...
...year's Edinburgh Fringe Festival.) "I haven't tried to make political capital," says Berkoff. "I feel deeply for the victims and wanted to portray that." While Berkoff uses verse to emphasize the epic magnitude of the disaster, French playwright Michel Vinaver goes one step further. His homage, The 11th September 2001, which will premiere at Barcelona's National Theater of Catalonia in October, couples expressions heard on and around the day itself with his own translation of Euripides' The Trojan Women. "There is an illuminating relationship between the fall of Troy and Sept. 11," he says. "These two huge...
...well known academic theologian who was previously Bishop of Monmouth, then Archbichop of Wales, and who became Oxford's youngest professor at age 36, as Archbishop of Canterbury; in London. A poet and prolific author, the most recent of Williams' books is Writing in the Dust: After September 11th. (Williams was two blocks away from the twin towers on Sept. 11.) He succeeds Dr. George Carey, who retires at the end of October after eleven and a half years as Archbishop...
Having the bases loaded in both the 9th and the 11th wasn’t enough for Boston to score a run off of struggling New York reliever Steve Karsay, and a weak ground-ball fielder’s choice by Robin Ventura that drove home second baseman Alfonso Soriano ultimately gave the Yankees...