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...family members waited in lines for hours to scan lists of victims treated at emergency rooms or identified as dead, looking for a familiar name. When they found nothing--as most did--they filled out a seven-page form describing the missing person with details that included hair color, length of fingernails and even earrings and shoes. Some brought strands of hair plucked from loved ones' brushes, hoping that if survival was out of the question, DNA identification would at least make death a tolerable certainty...
...long-awaited third volume of Robert Caro?s biography of Lyndon B. Johnson, "Master of the Senate," will be published this spring. PW predicts that despite its 1,152-page length, it will "rise to the top of critics? reading piles and April bestseller lists." First serial rights to the New Yorker...
...student-initiated banners, nearly 20 feet in length, were originally put up as a forum for the MIT community to record its thoughts. But now it has also become a forum for debate...
...little more than a year ago, in the heat of the presidential race, the Bush camp felt compelled to keep Tom Ridge at arm?s length. Today, Pennsylvania?s Governor is taking over the most visible position in America?s war against terror...
...political reputation of graduates from Deobandi schools that has led some governments in the region to keep the Deobandi movement at arm's length. India refuses to grant visas to students from abroad to study at Dar-ul-uloom, fearful that another leader like the Taliban's Mullah Omar might emerge in one of its neighbors. But the government has no problems opening immigration doors to foreign students who wish to study at the country's other great center of Islamic scholarship and revival - Aligarh Muslim University...