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...Instead, Stone plays the material straight, and safe. He stays totally on-message. Except for the image of a TV news screen with President Bush vowing to "hunt down" those responsible for the attack, the movie has no hints of the America that will emerge from the attacks. This is a micro, not macro, view of 9/11...
...Blanca Farber, 34, who was preparing for a flight from New York to Los Angeles, was also inconvenienced by the longer wait, but didn't mind the new measure. "We all want to be sure we are safe when we fly. I fly a lot and I want to be sure I get where I am going safely every single time...
When Jill Carroll - a freelance reporter working for the Christian Science Monitor in Iraq - was kidnapped by a group calling themselves the Revenge Brigade Jan. 7, she was taken to a safe house where she sat in a room with two couches and an overstuffed velvet chair, and watched Oprah on satellite television with her guard. For the following 82 days of captivity, Carroll, then 28, was moved to six separate safe houses. She says she was treated well: apart from being kept in confined spaces and denied exercise, she was well fed and allowed to bathe. She also bore...
...part chronicle of her abduction and detention - the first installment will be available on the paper's website Sunday night. With the help of Monitor senior writer Peter Grier, who offers a contextual narrative of what was happening in Boston, Washington and Baghdad while she was shuffled from safe house to safe house, Carroll recounts the hardship and, often, the irony of her captivity: "How do you channel-surf with the mujahedeen?" she writes at one point. Dave Cook, the Monitor?s D.C. bureau chief who has acted as Carroll's spokesperson, says that Carroll has a phenomenal memory...
...when were you born?" and ended with "how did you get to the airport?" and covered a lot of ground in between. I was accustomed to the drill, having lived in Israel throughout the 1990s as TIME's Jerusalem bureau chief. This, chiefly, is how the Israelis keep aviation safe in their country; no flight out of Tel Aviv has ever been hijacked. They ask a lot of questions, don't hesitate to take their time doing it, aren't embarrassed about profiling fliers and are quick to take matters to a higher level of scrutiny...