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...with hypocrisy, I hoped to teach in Europe or elsewhere--anywhere but here. And then everything changed. Those victims of the terrorist attacks did not die in vain. But the cowards who perpetrated these monstrous deeds did: instead of weakening a country, they strengthened it; instead of destroying the steel beams of our spirit, they fortified them; instead of dividing us, they have united us. COREY CHAPMAN Los Angeles...
...Bush?s generosity could present him with a budget problem. The next few surpluses are pretty much history - this is a wartime recession, after all - and with everybody from steel to peanut farmers claiming their "vital importance to national security," the pork is piling up fast...
Wait. Start again. "Casualties"? An officeworker, encased in a steel-and-concrete tomb, who did not live to see the birth of his baby: that is a casualty. But an entertainment genre? That's the vanity of vanities. That's confetti. That's nothing...
...worries. Survivor made personal and business relationships into a wilderness struggle. But now that our everyday concerns are life and death, it's the metaphors that look trivial. You don't need Fear Factor to put an edge on your humdrum existence when you've seen 110 stories of steel permanence collapse, twice. Says a network programmer who asked not to be named: "When we look back, we'll be able to say that people [lost] interest in reality shows because [you can] never match the reality of what happened...
...Zygomates, a chichi wine bar near South Station, Audrey M. Huff, a fourth year extension school student, placed her glass of red wine on the steel bar and began to talk about the gap that separates extension school undergraduates from the Harvard college community...