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...television. Whatever taboo made grief a private matter is for now a casualty of war. Has there ever been so intimate a reckoning as this--and not just on our side? Mohamed Atta was a scrawny kid who liked chess and got upset if someone killed a bug. Osama bin Laden was devoted to his mama and liked to drive tractors and watch nature videos. We compare his pallor from video to video to assess his failing health. This is indeed the devil we know...
...eventually make the acquaintance of each one. We know who was a bride-to-be and who was a woodcarver, who clipped coupons and who had retired the week before and gone in only to clean out his desk. Everyone is a story. Every story needs telling. Osama bin Laden is right when he says that "Americans love life." But he thinks that makes us weak; he misunderstood completely, that this is what makes us strong...
...take anything away from the heroic performance of Mayor Giuliani, but your choice of him was hypocritical and cowardly. Can any rational person think the effect that Osama bin Laden's heinous crimes had on the world was less important than the mayor's wonderful deeds? When Giuliani went to ground zero right after the attack, he showed something TIME's editors lacked: courage. EDWARD RADOSH Weston...
Giuliani is certainly deserving of the designation Person of the Year. But the greatest impact for good or ill in 2001 was made by Osama bin Laden. Neither Mayor Giuliani nor President George W. Bush would have been a candidate except for the terrorist attacks of Sept. 11. Without the events of that day, 2001 would have been a run-of-the-mill year. TIME chickened out. JAIME ARBONA Mayaguez, Puerto Rico...
Nancy Gibbs made some good points in recognizing that bin Laden is too small a man to get the credit for all that has happened in America since Sept. 11. Anyone like bin Laden, with money and a plan, could have sent messengers of death to New York City, but it took a man of Giuliani's courage, his instinct and intelligence to take on the responsibility for action in the face of this catastrophe. Rudy took charge. He led all the people of New York--the fire fighters, the police, the survivors and those who suffered the loss...