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On the morning of Sept. 11, as she drove to her job at the gift shop at the Oklahoma City National Memorial, Doris Jones learned from the radio that two planes had flown into the World Trade Center. As she walked into the memorial building, she paused at a picture...
More people are reaching out to friends and family, singing patriotic songs, giving money, donating blood, praying and doing anything possible to help others. That it took a tragedy for people to forget themselves and remember family, freedom and God is a sad commentary on Americans. Maybe we have learned...
MEG WHITMAN President and CEO, eBay Though most dotcom bosses can't get an investment bank to return their phone calls these days, Whitman and her company are held in such esteem that she has been named to the board of Goldman Sachs. Whitman, 44, joined eBay in 1998 and...
Americans have learned through bitter experience to associate trouble in the Middle East and the Muslim world with pain at the gas pump--from the 1973 Arab-Israeli war and oil embargo to the 1979 oil shock after the Iranian revolution and the price jump that followed Iraq's 1990...
The FBI admitted that with only 11,143 agents, the hunt for the anthrax perpetrators meant the bureau had to reduce its effort to track the Sept. 11 clues?and, in the process, perhaps reducing its chances of uncovering and preventing the next attack. "Every day is Groundhog Day," sighed...