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Archive for September 15, 2001

Guest Columnist William Safire: Terrorists had too much information on president: WASHINGTON -- At 9:03 a.m. Tuesday, as Vice President Dick Cheney was staring at the TV screen, the second hijacked airliner exploded against the Twin Towers. At that moment his Secret Service detail grabbed him ...; 8:08 a.m.

Guest Editorial from the New York Times: New Yorkers muster necessary courage: We have heard episode after episode in which someone, coming down or going up the stairwell of the World Trade Center, perhaps, or trapped outside in the coils of a dark burning cloud with strangers, ...; 8:07 a.m.

Guest Columnist Michael R. Gordon: If war is ahead, U.S. must change strategy: LONDON -- If the terrorist attacks this week, as George W. Bush says, mark the first war of the 21st century, waging that fight will require new military thinking and bolder tactics, allied experts say.; 8:05 a.m.

Guest Columnist Paul Krugman: Economic aftershocks don't have to be major ones: It seems almost in bad taste to talk about dollars and cents after an act of mass murder. Nonetheless, we must ask about the economic aftershocks from Tuesday's horror.; 8:03 a.m.

Guest columnist Thomas L. Friedman: Coming war will demand our best: As I restlessly lay awake early Wednesday, with CNN on my TV and dawn breaking over the holy places of Jerusalem, my ear somehow latched onto a statement made by the U.S. transportation secretary, Norman ...; 8:00 a.m.

Where I Stand -- Brian Greenspun: Resolve to move on: WE HAVE WITNESSED a time of national disaster. We have joined in a time of national mourning. It is time to move ahead.; 7:51 a.m.

Columnist Jon Ralston: Feeling of nothingness overwhelmed by emotion: IT WASN'T UNTIL late in the week that I finally felt it -- the sadness, the revulsion, the queasiness.; 7:50 a.m.

Is waiting period needed?: Is waiting period needed?; 7:48 a.m.

Letter: Please don't prejudge group: In the first few days following the 1995 attack on the Alfred P. Murrah Federal Building in Oklahoma City, Muslims reported more than 200 incidents of harassment, threats and actual violence. This is a concern ...; 7:45 a.m.

Letter: Americans live in a new world: Our innocence has been changed now and maybe we cannot walk so naively as we once did.; 7:45 a.m.

Letter: Tragedy serves to warn nations: JOHN MANUCCI; 7:44 a.m.

Letter: Divine guidance to help us cope: Someone or something has gone astray from the guidance of God, and has so blindly caused a disaster on our green Earth.; 7:44 a.m.

Letter: Passengers are real culprits: This struck me as the "real" tragedy. To think that three people with knives could herd that large of a group of people around like sheep disgusts me. Those Americans had their chance at bat ...; 7:44 a.m.

Letter: Seal the borders; send U.N. away: It is time to move the United Nations. Move it to Russia, Africa, France or England. Move it anywhere but get it out of our country. The United States has paid its share of United ...; 7:43 a.m.

Letter: What if Yucca had been hit?: With the disastrous attack on New York and on our own Pentagon by hijacked commercial airliners, what if one of those airliners was aimed at the entrance of Yucca Mountain? Or worse, what if there ...; 7:43 a.m.

Letter: Sanction the sympathizers: Countries that participate in terrorist actions shall face military retaliation as well. We need to declare war on terrorism and we need to strike quickly while the world is sympathetic to our cause. President Bush ...; 7:43 a.m.

Letter: No species more evil than man: It's hard to comprehend a philosophy that teaches that the reward for mass murder is an automatic entry into heaven. These suicidal "volunteers," for their own salvation, need an immediate rude awakening and complete change ...; 7:43 a.m.

Letter: Finding peace through faith: I wept for those I did not know, and feared for the lives of those who did not show.; 7:41 a.m.

Letter: Hatred masked as devotion: Turn over the cowardly one who hides in your skirts. He would sacrifice his own followers' seemingly worthless lives and use them as kamikaze pilots to commit the ultimate insult by making missiles of United ...; 7:41 a.m.

Letter: Cockpits should be more secure: The pilots could get food from a double door slot and have a restroom in the cabin. There could be a locker for carry-on, or overhead baggage, and the flight attendants would be in charge ...; 7:41 a.m.

Letter: Act demands retaliation: Being a world leader, we are supposed to be kind and just.; 7:41 a.m.

Letter: U.S. continues to be model of hope for world: As we seek justice we must deal with the nasty reality that those who are willing to die for their cause, and bring others with them to their death, will not be distracted by the ...; 7:40 a.m.

Columnist Mike O'Callaghan: It's now our turn to hunt them: MANY AMERICANS of my generation have recalled where they were and how they felt Sunday, Dec. 7, 1941. Yes, I can remember the anger that was felt by my family, headed by a veteran of ...; 7:37 a.m.

Columnist Sandy Thompson: Attack prevents chance to say goodbye to sister: Sandy Thompson; TUESDAY'S ATTACK on America became deeply personal.; 7:36 a.m.

Columnist Susan Snyder: There are no words to describe the grief: IT'S BEEN FIVE DAYS, but I'm betting there still are no words.; 7:36 a.m.

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