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That some Americans have lost their confidence in a form of travel that has become an essential part of everyday life is not so much unfortunate as it is completely normal. Investors worldwide were apprehensive for months about returning to the everyday, buy-low-sell-high routines of a market that had free-fallen 30 percent in just several weeks after 1987’s Black Monday. High school students nationwide were wary of returning to their hall lockers and classrooms for weeks after the 1999 Columbine High School massacre...
Today, the “unthinkable” has eliminated our confidence in the safety of the daily routines of our lives. While a normal reaction to this “unthinkable,” our loss of confidence in air travel is no doubt what Osama bin Laden had in store for us. His attacks were designed to undermine our confidence by doing the unthinkable. While our loss of confidence is intangible, this feeling of insecurity gives bin Laden an upper hand in his assault on Americanism...
...America to react to his assault in such a way as to deny him this small victory is to ask us to deny our normal impulse to feel apprehension and wariness. Despite our desire to strike back, the return to normality that President George W. Bush advocated in September cannot preclude these all-too-human impulses...
...sweet, quiet boy." It happens to be true. John Walker Lindh was a middle child named after John Lennon and Chief Justice John Marshall. He spent his first 10 years in Silver Spring, Md., in the happy, unremarkable manner that most parents wish for their children. "We were loud, normal kids," says Andrew Cleverdon, a boyhood friend of Walker's. "We played football and basketball, rode our bikes." John's father, attorney Frank Lindh, took the bus to his job at the Department of Justice. Marilyn Walker was a stay-at-home mom who kept her maiden name. They played...
...glance: Normally, one might expect a team graduating a unanimous First-team All Ivy selection who just happened to lead his team in points, rebounds, assists, and steals, to be in trouble. However, it’s also not normal to return six players with significant starting experience and still have two reserves earn starting positions. That, though, is exactly what has happened for Thompson, the son of the former Georgetown coach...