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...days after the attack, the global media unwittingly became the terrorists?? agent by relentlessly replaying images of their crimes, reinforcing the message of intimidation. As an antidote, the public is craving a restorative vision, a larger-than-life talisman to avert evil. The two finalist schemes are both highly symbolic—somewhat monumental, but also fragmented and skeletal; they represent more of an infrastructure than a monolithic building. But what do they symbolize? The act of destruction? Or are they symbols of renewal...
...urged citizens to vote today, saying that one of the terrorists?? targets in the Sept. 11 attacks had been democracy and the right to vote...
...trickled onto the lawns next to the Vietnam Memorial in Washington D.C., a woman in a cowboy hat and a skull mask worked the edges of the crowd. She handed me a neat, word-processed flier from a stack under her arm. There were no “Muslim terrorists?? on the flights on Sept. 11, it said. The whole atrocity was set up by the U.S. government, which directed the planes by remote-control. About ten web addresses followed. I pursued the woman to the next cluster of demonstrators and tapped her on the shoulder...
Despite the terrorists?? conceptual disregard for the “individual,” reality exists only for individuals. The devastation of Sept. 11 was real only to individuals; it was only experienced on the personal level. Many of us at Harvard felt the blow to the towers and heard the death knell of the attacks. Even as the frightful reports streamed in, I myself didn’t cry on Sept. 11 until I remembered the calm of the damaged St. Paul’s Church I had experienced one Sunday last spring. My memory...
...Bush administration’s domestic anti-terrorism measures delivered to the Senate Judiciary Committee last December. “To those who scare peace-loving people with phantoms of lost liberty, my message is this,” Ashcroft said. “Your tactics only aid terrorists??for they erode our national unity and diminish our resolve. They give ammunition to America’s enemies, and pause to America’s friends.” Ashcroft’s attempt to associate dissent with terrorism and thereby stifle his critics runs counter...