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Broadcast September 13, 2001 This morning the cleanup and grieving continue, and America is getting back to work. Talk also continues about retribution and war. Some Americans are feeling impatient to strike back at those who participated in any way in these horrific events. There is mounting public pressure to retaliate against our enemies, to […]

On Monday when the stock exchange opened the Dow dropped by 5 percent. The economy was deteriorating even before the September 11 attack. The stock market was already reflecting this underlying deterioration. Three major financial industries will be directly hurt by last week’s tragic events – financial services, airlines, and tourism. There is also an […]

At 10 o’clock on a cloudless and balmy Tuesday morning, two eras overlapped on the streets of Washington. A little more than an hour had passed since two hijacked planes slammed into the World Trade Center in New York. Just minutes ago, another had crushed one wing of the Pentagon, the American military command center […]

“If I see a guy come in that’s got a diaper on his head and a fan belt wrapped around the diaper on his head, that guy needs to be pulled over and checked.” — Rep. John Cooksey, Republican of Louisiana, on the ethnic profiling of Arabs,September 17, 2001 Thanks to Neenah Estrella-Luna of Newark, […]

“If I see a guy come in that’s got a diaper on his head and a fan belt wrapped around the diaper on his head, that guy needs to be pulled over and checked.” — Rep. John Cooksey, Republican of Louisiana, on the ethnic profiling of Arabs,September 17, 2001 Thanks to Neenah Estrella-Luna of Newark, […]

The Deep End is nowhere near as good as all the other critics said it was. It is not a bad movie, as late-summer offerings go, but it is a highly implausible one. And though implausibility is not enough to ruin a movie, not even a thriller (Vertigo, which is practically all implausibility, triumphs precisely […]

After weeks of warnings, the United States and Great Britain retaliated against Afghanistan’s ruling Taliban and Osama bin Laden’s Al Qaeda network. Starting immediately after the first missiles crashed into targets in Afghanistan Sunday, the world community began to respond — in some expected and some unexpected ways. As the military campaign continues, the United […]

Asia | Europe and Russia | Middle East and Africa | The Americas The World Responds Column Archive ASIA Afghanistan The Leaders : Afghanistan’s political future is getting heavy treatment in most Afghan papers and media outlets. Papers cite reports of defections within the Taliban, raising hopes in the U.S. and Pakistan for possible future […]