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That is not to say that athletes who lose someone or become ill do not merit sympathy. On the contrary, it poignantly illustrates their mortality, a vulnerability that the casualfan seems to usually ignore...
...supplies? Until these questions are resolved, investors and consumers will sit on their wallets. Meanwhile, what we do know is plainly awful. Consumer confidence, already at an eight-year low before last Tuesday, will fall further. George Mees Jr., owner of GEM Floor Sanding Service in Villa Park, Ill., had a sale fall through just hours after the attacks. "I'm sure to get cancellations," he says. "Nobody's going to want to spend money...
...Yarno, 49, a rental-car-agency manager in Bourbonnais, Ill., had long been planning a family vacation in Florida. Last week she scrapped the trip. "When I made the cancellations, it was like a thousand pounds was lifted off me," she says. A national company that provides janitorial services to office buildings--including the World Trade Center--was at a loss as to what to do when its workers began balking at using elevators or entering tall buildings...
...consider myself to be a peace-loving person with a high regard for the sanctity of life. I would not condone an ill-conceived plan of retaliation resulting in the unnecessary loss of more American lives, nor do I revel in the thought of killing innocent civilians thousands of miles away. But let’s face it: an act of war was made on the United States of America on Sept. 11, resulting in unfathomable human loss and incalculable property damage. As a nation, we simply cannot and should not ignore the fact that nearly 7,000 innocent people...
...speak, as Americans: it was because they were Americans that their deaths could serve the terrorists ends. Im not accustomed to belonging to a group that makes me a potential target of hate crimes; and thats what these were; isnt it? I dont much like it, and Ill bet you dont either. But if we dont like it, then maybe we should pause a moment to think about how some of our fellow Americans feel. And I dont mean Arab-Americans and Muslims, though of course they are in great danger, and we must all oppose their persecutionvery loudly...