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...World Trade Center,” using the Harrimans’ divorce to represent the sociopolitical changes that rocked post 9/11 America. Kalfus’ prose is as expansive as it is visceral, enhancing the sense that anyone could be fated to divorce, decapitation, or worse, without making the plot feel contrived.Such insecurity can also be enfeebling. Indeed, paralysis is one of the many reactions explored in “The Great New Wonderful,” the most impressive piece of 9/11 art I’ve encountered. Writer Sam Catlin and director Danny Leiner weave together five fictional...
...turns in plot and character, too, can seem overly facile for the material from which they are drawn: the wonderfully brutish Leonid, for instance, a hulking, red-haired Russian boy who makes Ben’s life miserable in high school, turns all too quickly into a misunderstood nice-guy who ends up marrying Ben’s twin sister...
...planting some of the bombs that exploded on seven suburban Bombay trains on July 11, killing almost 200; by chief of police A.N. Roy; in Bombay. Police said the attack was carried out by the three men, along with four other Indians and 11 Pakistanis, and claimed the plot was masterminded by Pakistan's Inter-Services Intelligence agency, along with at least two Indian terror groups. Pakistani officials quickly denied any connection to the attacks, calling the charges "baseless...
...Politicians in the U.S. and U.K. reacted to the alleged London plot with a mixture of hysteria and grandstanding. Secretary of Homeland Security Michael Chertoff ’75, HLS ’78 practically broke down in tears: “Very seldom do things get to me. This one has really gotten to me.” And, as a “close the barn door” policy, the government immediately imposed draconian restrictions on U.S.-U.K. flights, which they have only gradually loosened...
...guarding against liquid explosives, banning all non-essential carry-on items, is a massive inconvenience and a logistical nightmare. Certainly, the risk of liquid explosions will be almost completely eliminated, but at what cost? When the U.K. sharply limited carry-on items in the immediate wake of the August plot, roughly 20,000 bags were lost at Heathrow...