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...Kyle P. Egan ’02 said a friend of his was sprayed at close range, despite being in no position to even touch the goalpost...
...ridiculous scene,” Egan said. His friend, he said, was actually running away from the goalpost at the time. “There really seemed to be a lot of hostility in the air. It was totally unnecessary...
...your children safe. But there are no safety locks, no stair guards for this moment, and parents of six-year-olds and 26-year-olds find themselves confounded by their inability to do their most basic job. "I feel it has changed my relationship with my children," says George Egan, a Pittsburgh, Pa., investment banker, of the fallout from the attacks. He and his wife Annie have two sets of twins, ages 3 and 6. "When I go upstairs at night to check on them I now feel somehow less confident in my ability to keep them safe...
...characters in Jennifer Egan's intriguing new novel Look at Me (Doubleday; 415 pages; $24.95) grope for something substantial in the blizzard of images and information that make up contemporary life. At the center is Charlotte Swenson, an aging fashion model whose face must be reconstructed, with 80 titanium screws, after a pulverizing car accident. Though she looks perfectly normal, her former cronies in Manhattan's trendy night spots no longer recognize her, and her old life of amped-up photo shoots and weekends spent adorning the yachts of rich men slips away...
...awol, an ominous visitor from an unnamed part of the world filled with "dust, rage, starved zealous faces, languages he had trained himself not to think in anymore," a man once--and perhaps still--intent on disrupting what he calls "the American conspiracy." He probably seemed merely unsettling to Egan while she was writing the novel but now, in the wake of Sept. 11, he is instantly menacing...