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Diana Graham, M.D., is a third year resident in the psychiatry program at New York University in Manhattan. Since the September 11th terrorist attacks, Dr. Graham has observed, from her remarkable vantage point, a range of human reactions to tragedy - some predictable, some wholly unexpected...
...photographers will resonate forever, but now the less polished but no less powerful photos taken by amateurs have a gallery that will never go away. Yahoo has launched a new category, "Firsthand Photos," in its directory of sites, and it has links to photos taken by ordinary citizens of Manhattan, Brooklyn and Hoboken, N.J. A woman from Hoboken, in fact, has a captivating series of pictures of the Twin Towers taken over a period of two years from her bedroom window. time.com/shutter...
...weaves; you have to chase it. In New York it means leaving home two hours earlier if you have to drive over a bridge, because it takes a while for the guards to crawl over and under and through every 18-wheeler that is trying to get into Manhattan. But it was a comfort in the midtown crush, finally, to hear a driver yell, "Hey, move the car, jerk!" and sense the return of vehicular hostility; that felt like normal too. Miss America visited ground zero, as did Paul Newman and John Travolta and the cast of The Sopranos...
TIME: What explains some Arab street reaction showing satisfaction with the September 11 terrorist attacks on America? Moussa: I was really sad about what happened in Manhattan, where I lived for so many years, and in Washington. I strongly condemn it. If there are some expressions [of satisfaction], those are eruptions that do not at all represent the overwhelming majority of how Arabs feel and reacted. Those people have been living in refugee camps for decades. That shows what frustration will do. The Palestinian problem has to be solved...
...favors consuming our way out of this slump as well, urging us to "go to Disney World" and eat high on the hog, as he did for the cameras at Morton's steak house. "What can you do to help in this crisis?" Mayor Rudy Giuliani asked, with lower Manhattan smoldering in the background. His answer: "Spend, spend, spend...