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Everyone knew six weeks ago that his life had changed, but no one knew how much or for how long. Last week a realization was settling in, particularly among those who don't live in cities or work in skyscrapers or frequently fly: you could avoid all the hard targets and still never feel safe, because a weapon like anthrax pays no attention to landmarks or street signs. Last week only the fear of it was finely ground and easily spread--but with each new report at a newsroom or mail room, a new conversation was gathering force. How tough...
...families around him sobbed, fainted, hyperventilated or vomited. He felt it was important to show people that he was still standing, six years later. He confides it took him three years to break through his depression. Going to New York was, he insists, the best way for him to avoid getting sucked back into the vortex of grief. Two days after he returned home, he was at the Red Cross, asking when he could go back...
...people’s unwillingness to submit to his orders and authority. Arafat’s security forces shot and killed two supporters of Osama bin Laden last week, infuriating the Palestinian public and leading to the ransacking of several Palestinian Authority buildings and police stations. Arafat, determined to avoid the embarrassment and loss of political capital that resulted from his support of Saddam Hussein in 1991, was determined to quell the sentiments of the protesters, who vehemently disagreed with his perspective. Hamas and other radical groups have pledged to ignore any cease-fire directives given by Arafat...
Which leads us to Lennon (at least in his hirsute, post-Sargeant Pepper phase). Perhaps in an effort to avoid eclipsing Ono’s independent work, or perhaps because their collaborations are simply less interesting, the exhibition downplays Lennon and Ono’s joint projects, which began a couple of years before their marriage and lasted until Lennon’s death in 1980. However, the scraps provided are important historically and flesh out the political dimension of Ono’s career. Ono has said that her art is about the power of the imagination to change...
...Collateral damage: Civilian casualties are unavoidable in war, even more so in an air war. The Air Force and Navy have taken great care to avoid such casualties - even the Dalai Lama has commended them for this - but a number of accidents have already been confirmed. And the fact that the Taliban has moved much of its weaponry and personnel into heavily populated neighborhoods raises the potential for more. While there are no signs yet of such incidents weakening allied resolve, they are reportedly generating considerable anger among the anti-Taliban elements the U.S. is wooing in the south...