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...medieval institution toward modernity. The wrestling goes on. But on that first afternoon, John talked of the council's "beginning to rise in the church like the daybreak, the forerunner of the most splendid light." And the dawn was indeed inspiring, even if full illumination still tarries. --By David Van Biema...
...Van Voorst was the magazine's Middle East bureau chief...
...look back now on the 1993 attack, in which six people were killed and more than a thousand were injured when a terrorist bomb exploded in an unoccupied van in the Trade Center's underground garage, it's clear that for many of us the event was a false ceiling on the limits of terror. We thought at the time the attack was a warning to be prepared. And so, Cantor Fitzgerald and the other tenants and building managers of the World Trade Center tried to prepare. We took what we thought were exhaustive efforts to safeguard ourselves from...
...January a delegation of senior bureau officials and big-city police chiefs traveled to Israel to swap intelligence. The talks "impressed on me the absolute necessity for the public's participation in reporting suspicious activity and events," says FBI Assistant Director Van Harp, head of the Washington field office. He and other top bureau hands have been meeting with Arab, Muslim and Sikh leaders to solicit tips about potential suspects in emigre communities--and to promise that hate crimes against their communities will be aggressively pursued...
...ball formed from discarded spectacles, each pair of which Swaffield first tried on to check the refractive qualities. ("I got conjunctivitis making it," he says.) Another work, called Solewave?a collage of 350 ocean-bleached flip-flops plucked from various Sri Lankan beaches?recalls the swirling intensity of a Van Gogh...