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...those of you who somehow don’t know what a carillon is—and I regrettably suspect you might be quite numerous—a carillon is a set of more than 23 bells (think Lowell bell tower). Indeed the largest set in the world has 77. They can weigh from a few pounds to a few tons. They are played from a console, and most importantly, are in tune (perhaps you had better stop thinking of Lowell). The music they create is beautiful (now you should think the opposite of Lowell) and majestic. This is truly...
...truth in understatement. Nearly all of the sixty-plus stories use a similar autobiographical approach, typically recounting the day's events. The most harrowing of these, written by Evan Forsch and drawn by Robert Ullman, tells of Forsch's escape from the 89th floor of the WTC's north tower. With other contributions from Puerto Rico to California, the collection also includes the distanced, mediated experience that the rest of the world had. Such recountings create a sense of universal experience, a way to not feel so alone, unmatched by any other artistic medium...
...local and long-distance phone service, and only 6% get their phone and Internet services from the same firm, according to a survey by the Yankee Group, a consulting firm. "What we've ended up with," explains Rob Rich, executive vice president of the Yankee Group, "is this complex Tower of Babel that looks very appealing in terms of the basic services it provides but is just mystifying to consumers...
This comic-book fund raiser collects more than 60 black-and-white vignettes about Sept. 11 into 208 pages. Most are indie artists' personal accounts of that day, like Evan Forsch's escape from the 89th floor of the north tower. With profits going to various charities, comic books like this--including Marvel's Heroes and September 11, a two-volume set jointly published by DC and others--are providing both an artistic outlet and a way to help...
...ruins of Shahr-i-Gholghola?variously known as the City of Silence, the City of Noise or the Cursed City?tower above the Bamiyan plains of central Afghanistan, a single watchtower left of what, until its destruction in 1222, was a flourishing city on the Silk Route between Europe and China. Antitank mines left by a Soviet garrison in the 1980s deter visitors from exploring the caves and tunnels where the Taliban sheltered from coalition bombing last fall. On the other side of the plateau are sandstone cliffs honeycombed with caves and the empty niches that held the two giant...