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White House takes more aggressive stance

Presumed alumni deaths climb to 5

By KEVIN LEES

By ELISABETH BUMILLER and JANE PERLEZ

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Sixty hours after two hijacked jets careened into the World Trade Center towers, University officials are beginning to get a more complete picture of the fate of Duke’s alumni involved in Tuesday’s events.

Laney Funderburk, vice president for alumni affairs, said there are now five Duke alumni who are either dead or missing and presumed dead.

The only confirmed death, however, is that of Frederick Rimmele, Medicine ’94, a resident of Marblehead, Mass., who was on United Airlines Flight 175 from Boston to Los Angeles, which crashed into the south tower of the

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WASHINGTON The Bush administration Thursday singled out Osama bin Laden, the Islamic militant who operates from Afghanistan, as a prime suspect in Tuesday’s catastrophic terror attacks and vowed a comprehensive military campaign to demolish terrorist networks and topple regimes that harbor them.

“It’s not just simply a matter of capturing people and holding them accountable,” said Paul Wolfowitz, deputy secretary of defense, “but removing the sanctuaries, removing the support systems, ending states who sponsor terrorism.”

Late Thursday, Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld recommended calling up members of the reserve, initially to help support the combat air patrols securing the skies over major U.S. cities,

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Another Duke alumnus, who possibly traveled on Flight 175, and three others who worked in the World Trade Center are still missing.

Surviving alumni have begun to contact each other, and Elizabeth Spiers, Trinity ’99, has assembled her own website of recent Duke graduates living in New York City who are safe.

The website, which was launched Wednesday night, can be accessed at

Pentagon officials said.

Congress, despite some misgivings from lawmakers over granting President Bush open-ended authority,

moved swiftly to give the administration $4O billion to wage its new antiterror initiative.

As emergency workers pursued their solemn mission to find thousands of people missing in the rubble of the World Trade Center in New York and at See BUSH

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AN AMERICAN FLAG flies above therubble of the World Trade Center. Rescuers have been searching for survivors since the terrorist attack Tuesday.

She said she received over 120 email messages contributing names to the site Thursday.

“I was watching the news yesterday,” Spiers said. “Friends and relatives See ALUMNI on page

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Students, faculty organize support services

By AMBIKA KUMAR The Chronicle

In an effort to help victims of Tuesday’s terrorist attacks in New York City and Washington, D.C., faculty and student groups have planned fundraising and other events for the upcoming days.

Dean of the Faculty ofArts and Sciences William Chafe has organized a forum for 7 p.m. Sunday in Page Auditorium. Several students and faculty members will speak, including Dean of the Divinity School Greg Jones.

Most notable among student actions are the widespread fundraising efforts by groups ranging from Duke Student Government to Spectrum Organization. One coalition, coordinated by junior Ethan Brown and funded by DSG and the Interfraternity Council, plans to place tables at the Bryan Center, the Cambridge Inn and the Marketplace to raise funds—through flex or cash—for the American Red Cross Disaster Relief Fund.

Brown, a member of Theta Chi fraternity, said he was moved by the campus reaction at Wednesday’s vigil. “[Students] are waiting for something to happen where they can get involved,” he said. He added that he hopes the effort will show the community that the greek system cares deeply.

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JUNIOR ANDREA FEU writes her thoughts about Tuesday’s devastating events on a poster board set up in the Bryan Center. i

Raleigh-Durham International Airport will reopen for business this morning, but with a reduced load. Planes have been grounded since Tuesday. See page 3

Robert Byrd, chair of the Perkins Library Renovations Committee, reported plans for a new building at Thursday’s meeting of the Arts and Sciences Council. See page 4

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North Carolina’s military bases remain on high alert. A U.S. reponse to the terrorist attacks would probably involve some forces based in the state. See page 5

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Congress responds strongly to attacks

Congress moved with uncommon speed toward approving $4O billion to combat terrorism and recover from attacks on the World Trade Center and the Pentagon, double what President George W. Bush requested. Lawmakers also appeared near an agreement on a separate measure that would back the use of “necessary and appropriate force”

by Bush against the people responsible for Tuesday’s attacks.

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Cheney evacuates to Camp David

In wake of Tuesday’s attacks, the government widened the security buffer around the White House and moved Vice President Dick Cheney to Camp David. The Capitol was evacuated as well.

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Pennsylvania plane’s ‘black box’ recovered

Searchers found the black box of one hijacked airliner in Pennsylvania and received a signal from the black box of the plane that crashed at the Pentagon.

Attorney General John Ashcroft said the FBI is working on “thousands and thousands of leads".

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The nation’s stock markets are expected to resume trading on Monday, ending a four-day shutdown. In the bond market, a sharp increase in bond prices reflecting investors’ uneasiness.

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Buckingham Palace, at the order of Queen Elizabeth 11, staged a special Changing of the Guard Thursday dedicated to victims of the attacks. A military band played “The Star-Spangled Banner" while tourists and British onlookers stood silent, grasping American flags and weeping.

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“No greater grief than to remember days/ Of joy when misery is at hand.”

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More than 5,000 people are feared dead, as hopes for finding the missing fade

By LARRY McSHANE The Associated Press

NEW YORK The gruesome search through the graveyard of the World Trade Center yielded no survivors as the death toll mounted Thursday, and hopes dimmed for more than 4,700 missing souls. President George W. Bush promised to visit New York to “hug and cry” with its shaken citizens.

Two days after the trade center was hit and destroyed by two hijacked passenger planes, swirling dust kept visibility limited, and sanitation trucks waged a losing fight against the residue of the blast. Hundreds of family members searched for any sign of their loved ones.

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ARLINGTON, Va. As rescue workers clawed but that hope was dwindling.

The Army suffered the heaviest losses, including Lt. through wobbling wreckage, the Pentagon announced Thursday that 126 service members and civilians were Gen. Timothy J. Maude, a three-star general who headmissing and, officials said, presumed dead, raising the ed the Army’s personnel division, according to officials. death toll from Tuesday’s terrorist attack in WashingAltogether, 21 Army soldiers and officers and 53 civilton to 190. ians who worked in the Department of the Army were The toll, including 64 passengers and crew members killed, many of them from the services budget and peraboard American Airlines Flight 77, was comparatively sonnel offices. low, given officials’ initial fears and the exponentially The Navy reported that 33 sailors and officers, along higher number of casualties in New York City. Even so, with nine civilians, remained missing. They worked in a the toll in Washington alone exceeded the 168 deaths in variety of offices, including the Navy’s operation center, the Oklahoma City bombing in 1995, which had been the which was damaged in the attack. worst terrorist attack on American soil.

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Bush declared Friday, the day of his New York visit, a “national day of prayer and remembrance.” He asked Americans to spend their lunch breaks taking part in services at their chosen places of worship, White House spokesperson Ari Fleischer said.

The president praised New Yorkers for showing “the compassion of America and the bravery of America.”

New York was not alone in counting its missing and dead. The Pentagon said 126 people in the building were killed in Tuesday’s plane attack. Seventy bodies had been recovered.

Add the 4,763 missing reported by New York City Mayor Rudolph Giuliani, plus the 266 passengers and crew members who died aboard the planes that hit the trade center, the Pentagon and a field southeast of Pittsburgh, and the total dead in Tuesday’s carnage could be more than 5,000.

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could not return to their homes in a closed-off lower Manhattan. Nerves were frayed by bomb scares and false alarms, both in New York and in Washington.

The city also brought in 30,000 body bags for pieces of human remains.

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FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 14, 2001 � PAGE 3

Attacks shake local businesses Businesses across the Triangle have reported a severe decline in sales following Tuesday’s terrorist attacks.

By JAMES HERRIOTT The Chronicle

Tuesday’s disaster caused the demise of Midway Airlines, but many more businesses across the nation and in the Triangle have been severely wounded.

The shock of a terrorist attack on American soil has taken a heavy toll on consumer confidence, and area businesses are feeling the heat.

Pat Conway, professor of economics at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, said this emotional stress, as well as the fears and practical constraints of a crippled commercial aviation system, will likely hit travel- and luxury-related businesses the hardest.

“For the Triangle, in terms of short-term consequences, I would expect the hotels and restaurants not to have been doing the business they have been used to doing,” he said. “It may seem inappropriate to go out to dinner.”

La Quinta Inn and Suites on Chapel Hill Road, for example, reported a massive drop in room reservations. “We were 100 percent full last weekend. Now we are about 30 to 40 percent,” said Tuwan Royster, a front desk receptionist for La Quinta. Royster explained that many of the inn’s cancellations were by guests who could not make their reservations because of the restrictions on air travel.

For hotels near Raleigh-Durham International Airport, such as the Sheraton Imperial Hotel and Convention Center on Page Road, the effect on business was not entirely negative. The Sheraton’s general manager, Mike Martino, See ECONOMY on page 7 P-

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SOUTHWEST AIRLINES PLANES remain grounded at Raleigh-Durham International Airport, but the airline plans to resume a limited number of flights this morning.

N.C. airports begin flights on limited basis

By MATT ATWOOD The Chronicle

Airports across North Carolina began to resume limited operations as the Federal Aviation Administration lifted a ban on air travel Thursday.

Raleigh-Durham International Airport reopened to passenger travel at 5 p.m. Thursday, but many airlines were still keeping their planes on the ground.

Southwest Airlines, for instance, did not plan to resume passenger flights anywhere in the nation until 11 a.m. today.

Other airlines were open for business Thursday but flying only a fraction of their normal routes.

“On a normal day, system-wide, we’d run about 4,500 flights. Today will be in the low hundreds,” US Airways spokesperson Rick Weintraub said Thursday afternoon, shortly after the airline resumed partial operations. “Tomorrow, we hope we will be building up on that significantly.”

Weintraub hoped that flight operations could be back to normal “within a matter of days.” But he pointed out that there was still a lot of confusion at airports nationwide. “Right now, it’s a function of both the airports and the airlines and the FAA getting all the new procedures in place and getting

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RDU spokesperson Mirinda Kossoff said the first planes leaving the airport were those which were diverted there from other locations Tuesday. No passengers were aboard those flights.

Elsewhere in North Carolina, most of the departing flights Thursday from Charlotte-Douglas International Airport were also without passengers. The airport opened for business at about 9 a.m., but individual airlines did not fly any scheduled passenger routes before 6 p.m., said Haley Gentry, the airport’s public affairs manager.

The FAA would not allow airports anywhere in the nation to reopen until they imposed stringent security regulations.

These include an end to flight check-ins at the curbside or anywhere other than the ticket counter; a ban on unattended vehicles within 300 feet of airport terminals; more frequent, random passenger searches, including some physical searches; and a ban on all knives—even pocket knives—beyond security checkpoints.

“There will be some inconveniences, but safety will be the first element of our system to be restored,” U.S. Secretary of Transportation Norman Mineta said in a statement.

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Perkins renovations, budget top council’s agenda rently at 90 percent of capacity.

The old stagks area of the library, which Diskin Clay, professor of classical studies, compared to Dante’s gates of hell, will house special collections and the University Archives—areas not open to the general public,

By KENNETH REINKER Byrd hopes construction on the new The Chronicle building and renovation of Perkins’ At its first meeting of the year, the first floor will begin in a year.

Arts and Sciences Council heard plans “We’re very excited because we for an addition to Perkins Library as think that even in this first phase, we William Chafe, dean of the faculty of will be able to create the space we Arts and Sciences, outlined budget need to make this an intellectual cenand space concerns for the council to ter of the campus,” he said. address this year.

Chafe also spoke about the Perkins Robert Byrd, chair of the Perkins Lirenovations, along with other conbrary Renovations Committee and asstruction projects—such as the Molecsistant university librarian, presented ular Science Building, the wing for plans to build an addition to the lithe Sanford Institute of Public Policy brary behind the Old Chemistry Buildand the Nasher Museum of Art—toing and to renovate existing space. taling more than $2OO million. The The new building, connected to construction raises issues about Perkins via two walkways, will inwhere various departments will be loclude four floors above ground and a cated in the future. basement.

Another major issue Chafe disThe renovations aim to create memcussed was the need to make choices orable and inviting space, including based on budget limitations. better study and reading areas that The current Arts and Sciences could accommodate 1,700 students, budget does not allow the University compared to the library’s current cato simultaneously hire new faculty, pacity of 1,475. Officials also hope to raise salaries for current professors, make the facility’s design more intuimprove support of graduate students itive and consolidate library academic and increase research support, he services into a single area. said. And although the Campaign for “We want to work with Arts and Duke has been successful, Chafe said Sciences to see that both the library it does not free Arts and Sciences from and surrounding spaces meet the comfinancial constraints.' munity needs,” Byrd said.

“Success in the capital campaign The construction will reduce connow... does not translate into an imgestion by adding 72,000 square feet mediate experience with flush times,” in space for shelves, which are curhe said. “I would propose, therefore,

Administrators announced the location of the Perkins Library addition, and faculty heard about this year’s budget limitations.

AN ADDITION TO PERKINS LIBRARY is planned behind Old Chemistry Building and will be linked to the main library via two walkways. that we make this a year to underIN OTHER BUSINESS: The council stand and arrive at a policy vis-a-vis elected four new members to the execthe trade-offs we must make as we utive committee: Charlotte Piercemove forward Baker, associate research professor of With regard to undergraduates, women’s studies; Richard White, proChafe told the council he hopes to have fessor of biology; Malachi Hacohen, asthe number of applicants increase by sociate professor of history; and Lori 2,000 in the next three years. He plans Leachman, associate professor of the to focus especially on low-income stupractice of economics. Two members dents and will try to revamp the finanwere re-elected: Owen Astrachan, procial aid system. fessor of the practice of computer sciChafe added that he wants to inence and Kent Rigsby, professor of crease diversity among professors. classical studies. ”

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N.C. bases stay Fuqua, Law report no alumni deaths ready for action :" ALUMNI from page 1 were looking for lists of people who survived, and it was insane. I didn’t understand why someone didn’t

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From staff and wire reports Though no North Carolina military bases have so far announced involvement in the response to terrorist attacks, they are remaining at high levels of alert and could be involved if the United States responds

to the attacks.

The state houses the Camp Lejeune Marine Corps base, three air bases and Fort Bragg, home of the elite 82nd Airborne Division, the Army Special Operations forces and the secretive counter-terrorist Delta Force.

Any response to the terrorist attacks in New York and Washington probably will contain elements from these bases, analysts say.

Two amphibious assault ships—the USS Bataan and USS Shreveport—are anchored off the North Carolina coast awaiting orders, Navy spokesperson Cmdr. John Kirby said.

The relief force had expected to sail Wednesday afternoon, but didn’t because - there was no request for the aid from the Federal Emergency Management Agency, Kirby said.

At Seymour Johnson Air Force Base, which is home to jets designed to operate far behind enemy lines, the 4th Fighter Wing can respond anywhere in the world within 72 hours, said base spokesperson Capt. Jeff Jones.

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At the Fuqua School of Business, Karen Cochran, associate dean for development and alumni relations, said she had not heard any bad news from New York City.

She said 150 more alumni have checked in since Wednesday, which brings the number of safe business school alumni to 250.

At the School of Law, Kurt Meletzke, director of alumni relations, also said he had heard no unfortunate news from alumni.

“So far we haven’t lost anyone, which is good news,” he said. “We’re 99 percent sure everyone’s all right.”

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Republican opts out of Senate race; U.S. Rep. Richard Burr, R-N.C., said Thursday he will not seek the Republican nomination for Senate because of duties in the House resulting from Tuesday’s terrorist attacks.

After Sen. Jesse Helms, R-N.C., leaves the Senate next year, some Republican Party leaders were considering Burr a favorite candidate to run for the newly vacated seat.

But Burr, in his fourth term as a member of the House Intelligence Committee, will disappoint his backers.

“This- is not the time to put personal ambition above the national interest,” he said.

The only Republicans to enter the Senate race officially are former Charlotte mayor Richard Vinroot, who lost the gubernatorial election to Gov. Mike Easley last fall, and retired Salisbury physician Ada Fisher. Earlier this week, former American Red Cross president Elizabeth Dole, Woman’s College ’5B, postponed a news conference where she was expected to announce her entry into the race.

Democrats who have officially entered the Senate race are North Carolina Secretary of State Elaine Marshall and State Rep. Dan Blue, a Wake County lawyer and former state House speaker.

Lawmakers debate statewide sales tax

increase; After considering allowing individual counties to raise the sales tax by half a cent, the state Legislature is now considering levying the increase statewide and collecting the revenue itself for two years.

After that time, local governments could choose to pick up the increase. The tax plan will then eliminate $330 million in state reimbursements, so local governments will lose revenue after two years if they choose not to adopt the increase.

While Democratic legislators, who have a majority in both houses of the General Assembly, favor a tax increase as away to balance the budget, Republicans have reached a near consensus in their opposition to a tax hike. The current budget suffers an imbalance due to slowing tax collections and a severe fiscal crisis in the state government.

The tax plan would gain $lOO million on top of a $390 million tax package already approved in the House. This extra revenue would be derived from making the sales tax increase statewide and delaying the trade-off with local governments by two years.

“That’s the only thing we’re getting on top of what the House passed,” Senate leader Marc Basnight, D-Dare, said Wednesday. But he added that some tax loophole legislation could still move through the House, increasing the revenue available to budget writers.

The Senate will likely begin formal consideration of the House tax plan next week, Basnight said.

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Students write messages on board in Bryan Center DUKE RESPONSE from page 1 bar has agreed to donate proceeds from the night of Sept. 19 to the relief efforts. And he hopes to plan a similar event featuring Duke acapella groups Sept. 21.

DSG President C.J. Walsh, a senior, said another coalition plans to sell American flags in the Bryan Center next week. Those funds will go toward relief efforts.

Walsh said he will try to help centralize relief efforts, which are now simultaneously being coordinated by different groups for different specific causes. Few student leaders knew about other groups’ efforts Thursday afternoon.

Spectrum President Polentzi Narvarte said his group will hold a relief drive at the Bryan Center and in the Marketplace next week. “It’s for Duke students that have been personally affected by the tragedy who may need help trying to get a plane ticket back home to be with their families,” the junior said.

Assistant Vice President for Student Affairs Sue Wasiolek said the makeshift crisis center on the second floor of the West Union Building offered support services Thursday to students who

still have not heard from relatives and friends believed to have been in the World Trade Center towers.

Narvarte said Spectrum has also set up a message board in the Bryan Center for students to share their

thoughts. Narvarte added that the Mary Lou Williams Center for Black Culture will serve as a gathering place for students who need support.

The center also has information for possible victims of hate crimes and hate speech.

Other groups, too, are addressing the potential discrimination Arab and Muslim students could face. Diya and the Muslim Student Association set up two times for students to gather and discuss their feelings. One took place Thursday night, and another is scheduled for Saturday on East Campus.

MSA President Lala Qadir, a senior, said the University has been lucky thus far. “The Chronicle reported incidents of verbal harassment. I heard about that and about people feeling they’re getting some stares and whatnot,” Qadir said. “[But] in comparison to the rest of the country, Duke is extremely fortunate.”

Dave Ingram contributed to this story.

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� RESCUE EFFORT from page 2 Titanic combined. A total of 2,390 Americans died at Pearl Harbor nearly 60 years ago, and the sinking of the Titanic claimed 1,500 lives.

In New York, the difficulties of extracting bodies from the rubble meant that while 184 deaths had been confirmed, city officials prepared to watch the total soar. The missing included nearly 400 city firefighters and police officers. Another 2,300 people were injured.

The lone bit of bright news was the recovery of two firefighters who slipped into an underground pocket beneath the rubble while searching for survivors Thursday. The two radioed for help and were rescued by fellow firefighters several hours after they fell.

At One Liberty Plaza, an office building near the trade center site, volunteers were evacuated when the top 10 stories of the complex appeared unsteady.

Workers fled, sprinting down the street.

At a grief center set up for families with missing relatives, Jeanine Nardone arrived to look for her brother.

She had hung his photo in a Brooklyn subway station, hoping someone would recognize Mario Nardone—a 32-year-old Staten Islander, 6-foot-l, 180 pounds, bald with blue eyes, who worked on the 83rd floor of Two World Trade Center.

“He’s a strong person,” Nardone said. “He would not give up on us. And I’m not going to give up on him.”

Many family members stopped by the armoryturned-counseling center established by the city.

Looking south from there, the seemingly endless plume of acrid, white smoke from the wreckage still corkscrewed above the Manhattan skyline.

At Bellevue Hospital, a blue wall erected around a construction site was covered with pictures and descriptions of the missing and prayers for safe returns.

New Yorkers did take some small steps toward normal life. While everything south of 14th Street remained closed, the northern part of Manhattan became busier. Office buildings reopened, restaurants put out sidewalk tables and hawkers handed out flyers. Traffic on the streets and subways was up sharply compared to Wednesday.

The government gave the go-ahead for commercial flights to resume and some did, but schedules were expected to be in disarray, and heavy security was the rule.

Bond trading resumed, while Wall Street officials said the stock markets were expected to open again Monday. The shutdown on the New York Stock Exchange was already longer than the two-day closure at the end of World War 11.

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said his hotel has accommodated about 320 guests who ed by the already suffering economy. “The economy is were stuck in the Triangle because of canceled flights. not as good as it used to be—people are afraid. Eating But Martino nevertheless reported that many other out is a luxury, not a necessity,” he said.

Restaurants and hotels are not the only businesses guests were unable to travel to the area, prompting the cancellations of several conventions that were schedaffected. Ty Shines, a brand representative for Aberuled to be held in the facility. crombie and Fitch in South Square Mall, said the entire Darryl’s 1890 Restaurant and Bar, also on Chapel mall, including his store, has been practically deserted Hill Road, reported exceptionally slow sales as well—at since Tuesday. least 20 percent under projections every night since Conway expected most Triangle businesses to reTuesday. This is a bigger drop off than what the restaubound within a week. He felt, however, that air travel rant saw during the 1990 Persian GulfWar, said Joseph would see a downturn for the next few months to a year.

Moriarty, a manager at Darryl’s.

The professor’s long-term concern was that the United “We are looking at about two weeks of no sales,” MoStates would enact trade embargoes or immigration reriarty said. “[Thursday was] kids-eat-free day, but I don’t strictions. “What I’m worried about is an increase in the know what parent will want to take theirkids out.” distrust of foreign residents,” he added. “Immigration He added that he didn’t expect business to rebound laws might... affect the ability of Hispanic workers to get until football and baseball games recommence. into North Carolina. They are really the backbone of our Bill Bakis, the owner ofTavema Nikos in Brightleaf agricultural economy.”

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Powell: Bin Laden is behind terrorist attacks I BUSH ADMINISTRATION from page 1 the Pentagon, the nation remained palpably on edge.

Bomb scares and suspicious packages caused the evacuation of the Capitol and buildings in Manhattan. Vice President Dick Cheney was moved to Camp David for security reasons. An armed cordon was established around the executive mansion, with the surrounding area patrolled by police officers in full riot gear.

The administration took a more aggressive posture Thursday after the shock of the previous two days, making President Bush more visible.

“Make no mistake about it, this nation is sad,” Bush said in an appearance in the Oval Office Thursday morning. “But we’re also tough and resolute, and now’s an opportunity to do generations a favor by coming together and whipping terrorism, hunting it down, binding it and holding them accountable.”

President Bush told Mayor Rudolph Giuliani Thursday morning that he would visit New York Friday, after leading a prayer service at the National Cathedral in Washington. He visited a Washington hospital to offer comfort to some of those injured in the attack on the Pentagon.

Secretary of State Colin Powell stated in the strongest terms yet that the administration believed that bin Laden was behind Tuesday’s devastating attacks.

Referring to Pakistan, one of the few countries that recognizes the Islamic Taliban who rule Afghanistan, and to Afghanistan itself, Powell said, “When you look at the list of candidates, one resides in that region.”

Asked if that candidate was bin Laden, he replied with a curt “Yes.” He said that the administration would present a case to the world against those believed responsible for the carnage in New York and Washington. “We will go after that group, that network and those who have harbored, supported and aided that network, to rip the network up,” Powell said.

As he mapped the start of the anti-terror effort, Powell stepped up the pressure on Pakistan, a nation that has often supported bin Laden, to help the United

States bring the accused terrorist to justice. Powell telephoned Pakistan’s leader, Gen. Pervez Musharraf, to present him with a list ofactions the administration would like him to take.

Sen. Joseph Biden, D-Del., chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, met with Gen. Mahmoud Ahmad, the head of Pakistan’s intelligence services, who, according to Biden, pledged Pakistan’s cooperation.

Another top national security adviser said later in the day that the attacks could have been the work of a number oflinked organizations.

“We don’t want to be premature,” the official said.

“We want to be sure we understand all the connections, not just one connection.”

Wolfowitz said that the United States and its allies would wage “a campaign, not a single action” to dismantle the terrorist group or groups responsible for this week’s attacks, and to bring down the governments that support them.

The administration has asked Congress for an immediate $2O billion to begin building the military and intelligence force required to launch the antiterror campaign.

“Twenty billion dollars is a lot of money,” Wolfowitz said, “but for this country it is a down payment on what we’re going to do.”

Congress is moving swiftly to approve the funds, although some lawmakers, citing the Gulf ofTonkin resolution and other earlier blank checks written to presidents to conduct undeclared wars, expressed uneasiness about Congress so quickly ceding its constitutional powers to declare war and control the na-

tional treasury.

“We want constitutional involvement in the process in which decisions are made,” said Rep. David Obey of Wisconsin, a 32-year veteran of Congress who is the senior Democrat on the Appropriations Committee.

Bush, facing a stem test that will recast and define his tenure in office, said that the campaign against terror “is now the focus of my presidency.”

He said that he would not neglect domestic con-

cerns. “But now that war has been declared on us, we will lead the world to victory, to victory,” he said.

The nascent campaign is being waged on a broad diplomatic front. The administration continued Thursday to try to galvanize an international coalition, its diplomatic and military strategy focused on trying to use Russia and Pakistan in an encircling movement on the north and south of Afghanistan.

Russia has bases in the former Soviet republics of Tajikistan and Uzbekistan and could offer other assets, including intelligence, to the United States for a military assault on bin Laden in Afghanistan.

The planning and the language used by administration officials was read by military analysts as a sign that Powell, the former chairman ofthe Joint Chiefs of Staff, is preparing the way for a military force that could ultimately be used to occupy Kabul, the Afghan capital, and overthrow the ruling Taliban party.

The Soviet Union occupied Afghanistan from 1979 to 1989, while the United States fought a proxy war, using mujahedeen rebels, against the Soviet troops, who eventually began to withdraw in 1987.

Now, Russia and the United States appeared to be looking for ways to work together against bin Laden in Afghanistan.

Deputy Secretary of State Richard Armitage, accompanied by a team of Pentagon and National Security Council officials, is scheduled to meet in Moscow next week with Vyacheslav Trubnikov, first deputy foreign minister. Armitage will be asking the Russians for thendetailed knowledge of Afghanistan, sis well as for access to the Russian military facilities in neighboring Tajikistan and Uzbekistan, administration officials said.

The Russians maintain air bases in those two Central Asian nations, and one ofthe most crack Russian divisions, the 201st Motorized, operated on the border of Tajikistan and Afghanistan, officials said.

“Fm sure they will be helpful on many things,” Powell said of the Russians. “They do have a great deal of experience in Afghanistan and we will draw on all of that experience.”

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In the rush to cover last Tuesday's attacks in New York City and Washington, D.C., the nation's major news sources grappled with journalistic dilemmas: How best to document the developing story? What ethical boundaries should be observed? Television news divisions arrived at various conclusions, and the onscreen outcomes produced several successes and failures.

The Cable News Network proved the best resource amid the dynamic chain of events. Though the least watched among the four major players, CNN set the industry standard, immediately initiating full-scale coverage supplemented with appropriate features on related interests.

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The quality of CNN's efforts stems from its philosophy on television journalism. The appeal of the network's coverage has long rested in its breadth, not upon prominent personalities. The archetypal Walter-Cronkite imitators on the major networks each assume paternalistic roles in their presentation. But if the nation needs solace, it's unlikely Dan Rather will be its shoulder to cry on.

From an ethical standpoint, the networks imposed important censorships and restrictions. Groundsite coverage was slim, even as the risk to reporters and film crews dissipated. However, early coverage of free-fall suicides from the towers of the World Trade Center proved decidedly disturbing, and replay, particularly on CBS, bordered on exploitive.

However, in sum, the interwoven and cooperative efforts of local, national and international news bureaus produced a near-global synchronicity in information-sharing, a process which, despite flaws, testifies to the industry's professionalism and sophistication.

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away, it isn't fair. They changed the name. They wrote new songs.

That's about all anyone can do these days, but for one reason or another, the Long Beach Dub Allstars are still subject to scrutiny. They are neither a cover band nor a reunion tour nor a state-fair-caliber p n 'rl Uav,Cl tribute act, and to be honest, five of LBDA's seven members were technically never in the original group. So why is it that Wonders of the World, the second release from a band that runs the gamut of musical genres—from reggae to punk rock to ska and back again—elicits only one response: "I liked them better when they were Sublime."?

Ah, Sublime—everyone's favorite held-down, drugged-up trio from Southern California, whose raucous reggae-funk lyrics, overflowing with

Long Beach Dub Allstars Wonders of the World (Dreamworks)

would send Opie right back to Mayberry.

Actually, he does on "Sunny Hours," which contains an eerie sample of Sublime's "What I Got." The three-second guest appearance from the great b nd is easily the most memorable part of the entire album Walters Perhaps you can't blame LB DA. They opted for the triedand-true, and when it works, it works well. Ultimately, Sublime fans will certainly appreciate the effort, as tracks like "Rolled Up" and "Listen to D.J.'s" mimic the sound of old—even if it is just mimicry.

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kept us all singing—in GRADE: English and Spanish. A tragic heroin overdose ended lead singer Bradley Nowell's life and left the two surviving members—bassist Eric Wilson and drummer Bud Gaugh—regrouping. The fruit of their labors: an instrumentally beefed-up ensemble hopelessly lost in Sublime's shadow.

The lack of identity is apparently taking its toll on LB DA, who can't decide who they are on Wonders of the World. Front man Opie Ortiz is easily recognizable as a Nowell clone, desperately imitating every vocal trick of his predecessor. Half of the album is an unapologetically Sublimeladen knockoff, and the rest —an often rambling, throaty mess—is much less enjoyable. One would think that the addition of turntables, horns and keyboards could refine and enrich a familiar sound, but with every erratic, misplaced blip and chirp, it becomes clear that, if Bradley were here, he

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The CD begins with "Pa Lante," a hon a traditional salsa feel. The shift betweei tracks like "1234" featuring De la Soul a the Chaos" featuring Common is jarring least. The styles fail to mesh the way they did on the group's self-titled 1998 album, making for an awkward vibe as horns and samples duke it out for aural attention. This could be due to the fact that Cut Chemist only lends his turntabl ents to three tracks on Embrace the Ch, the more crucial role he played on their Ozomatli embrace perhaps a little too m their schizophrenic skills, making for a di with scattered moments of clarity.

DJ Krush is back behind the boards. After relying mainly kills of others on his last outing, this mother swing at crafting the GRADE: that characterize his sound.

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In its past four albums, Jamiroquai has carved a unique musical niche, fusing funky bass lines and flowing melodies with a world music flair—think didgeridoo meets disco. The band's latest venture, A Funk GRADE: Odyssey, trades in the tribal jazz vibe for an intergalatic jam, heavily influenced by Basement Jaxx and Daft Punk. The galaxy quest shines when Jamiroquai allows itself to GROOVE "Feels So Good," "Little L' and "Love Foolosophy" possess undeniable dance floor potential. However, despite their charms, Odyssey s1 more subdued cuts—the whimsical "Corner of the Earth" and "Black Crow" —completely break the continuity of the album.

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HUNKY ACTOR: And because of that love, that deep love in your deep blue eyes and your perfect breasts, I must blow up this building and then get in a sword fight with the alien enemy from ancient history.

ALIEN: Shit. I'm screwed.

BOMB: Boom.

And with that, the worst summer of movies is finally over.

It's time for the fall—the season when writers, directors, actors and studios actually make an effort, or tear-jerk trying This year, the fall movie season is inspiring heightened expectations—partly because of the lousy summer, but also because many A-list directors, famous tales and innovative projects are on the slate:

Mo' Budget, Mo' Problems?

Like the summer, the fall has its share of mega-expensive movies. Unlike those in the summer, these films are not remakes and are for the most part not directed by hacks. For the honor of the fall's most anticipated film, it's a tossup between Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone and The Fellowship of The Ring, two much anticipated literary adaptations.

Potter director Chris Columbus claims to be a huge fan of the books, and asserts that he understands the importance of being faithful to the stories about a coming-of-age wizard. Columbus ruffled the industry's feathers when he decided against using a known actor for the lead. He's worked magic with that combination before—i.e. Macaulay Culkin in Home Alone.

If Columbus worries about succeeding with his adaptation of the recent Potter books, Ring director Peter Jackson must be as nervous as a girl who's five days late. Adapting a series of books with an international following of fans more diehard than ill-tempered Trekkies is a daunting challenge. Luckily for Jackson, Ring stars established thesps lan McKellan, Elijah Wood and Sean Bean. If he fails, it won't be alone. And judging by the trailer, he won't.

Armies of One—or Two For each big-budget adaptatipn of famous literature, there are a few dozen big-budget star vehicles low on inspiration and originality: John Travolta plays an action-hero father in Domestic Disturbence. Jet Li kicks his own ass in The One, and Nicolas Cage goes Navajo in the World War II flick Windtalkers. Johnny Depp and Heather Graham duel with Jack the ' Ripper in From Hell. Brad Pitt and Robert Redford get intelligent in Spy Game. Guy Pearce crosses the continuum in a remake of The Time Machine. Will Smith stings like a butterfly and flies like a bee in Michael Mann's biopic AH.

Merchant and/or Ivory The tradition of long, overblown period films continues this fall. Hilary Swank and Christopher Walken show off their ruffles in the ever-so-excitingly titled The Affair of the Necklace. Jim Cavaziel looks for revenge in The Count of Monte Cristo, and Robert Altman crosses murder with bowties in Gosford Park. Finally, Martin Scorsese's Gangs of New York, a film that has been in the works for 20 years, comes to theaters this December. About young mobsters in Manhattan, Gangs mixes Scorsese's sleek style with hot young talent— Leonardo DiCaprio and Cameron Diaz star in a cast that also includes Daniel Day-Lewis and Liam Neeson.

Cinema Fou The great experimental and audacious filmmaking that marked 1999, and disappeared in 2000, is back again this fall. The products range from the barely daring—Cameron Crowe's Vanilla Sky. a psychological thriller starring two actors named Cruize (Penelope and Tom)—to the all-out quirky, like Wes Andersens' The Royal Tenenbaums. Anderson, writer/director of Hush more, has created the story of the precocious Tenenbaum family, played by Anjelica Huston, Gene Hackman Gwyneth Paltrow and Anderson-film staple Bill Murray. The Coen brothers have Billy Bob Thornton and James Gandolfini sleuthing it up in The Man WhoWasn t There. How’s this for a personality change: The usually jovial Steve Martin plays a dentist caught up in a web of lies and murder in the dark comedy Novocain. Lastly, David Lynch's Mulholland Drive opens in October. 'Nuff said

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Comfort Food Bruce Willis steals Billy Bob Thornton in Bandits. K-PAX \s the story of a man who thinks he is an alien—it sounds like a flat idea (and like a boring film), until you factor in Kevin Spacey as the potential alien and Jeff Bridges as his therapist.

Drew Barrymore rides cars and boys in the aptly titled teen-pregnancy story Riding in Cars with Boys. Two-fifths of *NSync ride elevated trains in On the Line. A weepy Kevin Kline contemplates Life as a House. Finally, Steven Soderbergh's star-packed remake of Ocean's 11 opens in December. How's this for enticement: The heist film's playbill features the names Clooney, Roberts, Pitt, Damon and Affleck.

Ha! As was true with the summer film season, and as is true with primetime television, comedy seems to be on the outs.

It might be a sign that society is maturing and growing tired of endless pranks. It's more likely a sign that the studios did some focus-grouping —although one should wonder which focus group suggested teaming Chris Rock and Anthony Hopkins as ghosts for Bad Company. Jack Black gets in deep with a fat-suit-wearing Gwyneth Paltrow in Shallow Hal. David Mamet swipes back with Heist. Not Another Teen Movie looks like another teen movie. Finally, Tim Alle,n and Jim Belushi clown around in Joe Somebody.

Pure Oscar Fodder Some films might be weighty and amazing, but let's be honest—their role in the industry's circle of life is to win some producer a Best Picture Oscar. Perhaps none of these films will be nominated, but they were made with little naked gold men in mind. Russell Crowe slays numbers and equations in A Beautiful Mind. Kevin Spacey emotes with Julianne Moore and Judi Dench in The Shipping News. Jim Carrey tugs on the writers' guild's heartstrings as a blacklisted scribe

James in The Majestic. Sissy Spacek gets it on In the Bedroom. Robert Redford fights prison and villainous warden an of in adaptation a old man Gandolfini in The Last Castle. Anthony Hopkins, always an Oscar target, plays mysterious Stephen King's Hearts in Atlantis.

Add these films to a wealth of independent and foreign films (of which, it seems 50 percent have gay or lesbian themes or protagonists) and you've got a pretty memorable season.

The goals of fall films are to endeavor artistically, win Academy Awards, pacify the few real actors left in Hollywood and make mountains of money—not necessarily in that order. With such a mixed bag of reasons for making a movie, not to mention the mutual exclusivity of those goals, this fall could as easily implode under the weight of its budgets as it could succeed and duplicate the suc�Jpk | cess of 1999.

Editors' Picks In the past year, films have underperfomed (2000 fall season) and dramatically overperformed (2001 summer) at the box office. What have been absent are rave critical reviews for a mainstream production.

What does the future hold? Recess film editor Martin Barna and associate film editor Alex Garinger make their predictions for a few annual awards.

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It’s the mid-1980s, and Walhberg is Chris Coles, the recently kicked out lead signer of a tribute band for the hair metal group Red Dragon. He is standing in the real Red Dragon's recording studios in a Los Angeles mansion about to have the audition of a lifetime.

It seems Red Dragon's front man is being thrown out of the group, and if Chris is good enough, he can take over.

The scene begins as Chris and his girlfriend Emily (Jennifer Aniston) are touring through the mansion, oohing and ahhing at every guitar, piece of clothing and jewelry on display. This is their Graceland, after all They finally get into the studio and find all the band members cheerful and eager to get him singing. That is, of course, all except one—the lead vocalist whom Chris is going to replace. Red Dragon is actually auditioning their lead singer's replacement while he is still in the room. WHAT?! That would be like a

company interviewing for someone to be CEO while the acting CEO is

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Despite this unbelievably ridiculous scene, Rock Star is not a bad movie by any means. It's occasionally funny—though not necessarily laugh-out-loud—and if a smile isn't on your face for most of its GRADE: 102 minutes, there's something with wrong you.

Q. The problem is that it's simply too bythe-numbers. The script doesn't try anything imaginative or anything daring. We watch the rise of Chris in his dreams to become a rock star and then his ultimate fall, which we were anticipating since we saw the previews four months ago.

As I watched Rock Star, I couldn't help but wonder where the film could have gone with the only unique moment in the film. If the movie had been about the original front man—who turned out to be gay and wearing a wig (the ultimate faux pas for the leader of a hair band) —it might actually have been interesting to watch. Instead, we have two very strong performances from Wahlberg and surprisingly, Aniston, in a story.

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Margaret Hall (Swinton) is a hell of a mom. Her husband, a Navy officer, is frequently on duty, leaving her with the burden of looking after their three children. The eldest of these children, Beau (Jonathan Tucker), is a closeted 17year-old. At the beginning of the film, Beau is in a car wreck while driving home from a local gay bar. Margaret warns his 30-year-old sexual companion, Darby (a very sleazy Josh Lucas), to stay away from her son.

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kinMng.l own. like a sword., excellent model of new feminism—banks and credit card companies will not forward her the money to pay the blackmail without her husband's signature, so she instinctively uses her own talents and compassion to turn the blackmailers against each other. She derives her strength from the fact that everyone underestimates her because of her femininity. Woe are they.

The rest of the film, notably the development of the supporting characters, is not as strong as Swinton’s performance, but the film's message and its believability make The Deep End worth the plunge.

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Despite breathtaking cinematography and fight sequences, this film falls on its sword.

two men swinging off ropes that hang from the top of a 300Imagine foot castle turret. Now picture them swordfighting. This pseudo-joust is

Scenes between D'Artagnan and Constance were the most indigestible.

When D'Artagnan walks in on Constance bathing in her American Beauty a typical scene from The Musketeer, Peter Hyams' remake of the bathtub pose, he is shocked and apologetic. She is unfazed, although they oft-cinematized Three Musketeers, by Alexandre Dumas. The film's tag line, "As just met, and says, "You behave as though you've never seen a naked you've never seen it before," is true only to the extent that the story has woman before." "I, I, I've never seen one, uh, quite 50... naked," he replies. never been this painful to watch. While the action sequences, involving Wow, how romantic. wine-barrel jumping and leap frog on horseback, are original and entertainThe dialogue between the male leads isn't any better. Most conversations ing, the rest of the movie is definitely familiar, if not downbetween men in the movie consist of a few lines and then a right cliched

By Alexandra Wolfe brawl. At one point, two random men in the streets of Paris The cliches range from the ridiculous to the pedantic, ultistart laughing at the shabbiness of D'Artagnan and Planchet's mately forming a film that is a cross among Zorro, Batman, Crouching Tiger, carriage. The men ask them to move the carriage and D'Artagnan says, "1 Hidoen Dragon and Rapunzel, with some American Beauty spliced in, courcan't leave until you apologize to my horses." tesy of Mena Suvari.

"Do you know who we are?" they reply.

In the beginning, little D'Artagnan watches a tax collector kill his parents, "Do you know who I am?" asks D'Artagnan. "No." fails to defend them and thereafter vows to become a musketeer and learn "Good." the skills needed to extract revenge—with the help of Planchet (Jean-Pierre Punch.

Castaldi). Years later, adult D'Artagnan (Justin Just like Batman. Just not as good.

Chambers) meets this man The action following these three-liners is suspenseful. D'Artagnan fights learn is Febre (Tim Roth), the rebellious six men on horseback while riding on top of a carriage and swordfighting Cardinal's malevolent sidekick. We then folwhile jumping from ladder to ladder, rafter to rafter in a huge barn full of low D'Artagnan as he learns of Febre's plot wine barrels. Two actors balance on a horizontal ladder on top of a rafter, to kill the queen (Catherine Deneuve) advancing and retreating as if on a seesaw. and destroy the regency. Meanwhile, These combat series, coupled with the breathtaking cinematography, are the D'Artagnan (pronounced differently by movie's only redeeming qualities. The soundtrack draws the audience in, but is every actor) has a confusing and too dramatic for the lackluster emotions the actors disGRADE: peripheral love affair with play. The costumes are ornate but often Constance Bonacieux (Mena too extravagant, and they camouSuvari), the mistress of his boardflage the action scenes. Most dising house, who is also, incidentally tracting is Febre's black leather great pals with the Queen ensemble, which is so hideHmmm heavy that it crunches and The original story may squeaks every time he have been gripping. moves. With its elementary However, with the help of dialogue, the movie does Gene Quintano's inane nothing to suspend disbelief screenplay and the cast's and is merely visually enterunconvincing portrayals, taining. When Mena Suvari the plot failed to shine responds to one of through. Chambers lacks D'Artagnan's saccharine lover charisma and Roth's role lines, she says, "Sometimes was too cliched for the it is much better to say nothactor to exhibit an ing." Someone should have impressive performance.

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the most part, not much is to be expected in community theater productions because, for the most part, they are horrible. So, expecting very little, I spent my Sunday afternoon seeing Les Liaisons Dangereuses in the Arts Center next door'to the Cats Cradle in Carborro. To my surprise, I was pleasantly rewarded.

The play is based on the 1782 novel by Frenchman Pierre-AmbroiseFrancois Choderlos de Laclos, which was undoubtedly one of the more scandalous works of its time. Today, the book endures as a theatrical production and in cinematic form, with onscreen adaptations like Cruel Intentions and the more strictly faithful Dangerous Liaisons In 1988, the Broadway and big-screen adaptations of Les Liaisons Dangereuses reintroduced the work to rave

By Cary reviews. A decade later, critics panned the teen-themed interpretation Cruel Intentions, though it remains a cult favorite among younger viewers. So naturally, it could be difficult to see a small company's production of the play with such prominent preconceptions of how the story should be told. However, this production of Les Liaisons Dangereuses was surprisingly impressive.

Carrboro's Open Door Theatre is currently running its production of the play through September 23. Full of deception, scheming and sex, the work always evokes interest. No one is who he seems to be, and it's natural to expect the unexpected.

Quite unexpected was the would-be strip tease which opened the show. Emilie (Melissa Lozoff), a courtesan and the mistress of Le Vicomte de Valmont (Michael Babbitt), is lying in bed when dim lights rise on the stage. Wearing only a bra, underwear and stockings, she gets up from the bed and performs an awkward dance of seduction to Natalie

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Merchant's "Carnival." Though provocative, this lurid sequence plays no role in the plot whatsoever.

La Marquise de Merteuil (Dorothy Recasner Brown) is the evil temptress who makes puppets of those around her. Brown used each word very carefully, manipulating her victims with finesse. Le Vicomte de Valmont is La Marquise's favorite toy. Unfortunately, Babbitt seemed quite disconnected from his character, and it was virtually impossible to see his transformation from playboy to softhearted lover. His seductions of Cecile Volanges (Megan Ketch) and Madame deTourvel (Laura Blake) survived only through wonderful performances from the two young actresses.

Though otherwise nicely executed, the production Hughes demonstrated a few minor flaws. Several gratuitous sex scenes served no purpose except to liven up the show. In film, gratuitous sex is commonplace, but it is quite rare in the theater and even rarer in community theater. The aforementioned introduction as well as a bedroom scene between Valmont and Emilie were enough to scare an older couple away at intermission. Also, the women's costumes seemed late 'Bos rather than present day, where it seems director Rob Kramer has set the play. The final duel also featured guns from another period, which did not support the temporal setting. Perhaps it would have been fitting to update the duel into something more appropriate for today.

Although the production is not flawless, it's hard to find better theater this far from New York and with unpaid performers. Les Liaisons Dangereuses is a magnificent story replete with irony and still quite relevant 200 years after its inception. This production offers a rare chance to see such an exceptional piece of literature performed on the stage. □

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By C3ry 1939, he fled France with his brother to escape Nazi occupation and changed his name from Mangel to Marceau.

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FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 14, 2001

Big 12, SEC postpone weekend football games

By RICHARD ROSENBLATT The Associated Press

There will be no major college football Saturday after all.

The Big 12 and Southeastern conferences reversed field Thursday and postponed their football games this weekend because of the terrorist attacks in New York and Washington.

The Big Ten said it did not officially postpone games, but its 11 schools either suspended home games or had road games postponed for them.

A day after announcing its games would go on, the leagues joined the Atlantic Coast, Big East and Pac-10 conferences in not playing.

In addition, the other five NCAA Division I-A

conferences —Conference USA, Mid-American, Mountain West, Sun Belt and Western Athletic, postponed tkeir games. Notre Dame, an independent, had its game at Purdue, a Big Ten school, postponed.

A total of 58 games involving I-A teams will not be played this weekend 54 were postponed and four were canceled. The games that won’t be made up are Navy at Northwestern, Bowling Green at South Carolina, Marshall at TCU and Appalachian State at Troy State.

It’s the first time major college football will not play any ofits regularly scheduled Saturday games.

After the assassination of President John F. Kennedy on Friday, Nov. 22, 1963, many games scheduled for the next day were postponed but sevD. BRYANT, along with the rest of the Division l-A football players, will have the eral were played, including Oklahoma-Nebraska, week off to reflect upon Tuesday’s national tragedy.

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Karl Benson, commissioner of the WAC, said the NFL’s decision to postpone its games weighed heavily with the colleges.

“It had a very significant impact,” Benson said.

“We haven’t been able to the go five minutes without seeing or hearing reports from the World Trade Center. No one has ever had to face this crisis before, not the commissioner of the NFL, the PGA or myself. The longer you can wait to make a decision, the better decision you can make.”

Among the most prominent games postponed were three matchups in Florida: No. 13 Washington at No. 1 Miami, No. 8 Tennessee at No. 2 Florida and No. 10 Georgia Tech at No. 6 Florida State, The SEC, which had said Wednesday that its games would be played, reversed course Thursday.

“The Southeastern Conference joins all of the other major sporting entities in the nation in postponing all athletic events,” the SEC said.

“The conference continues to believe this country must begin the healing process following the horrendous events of the past week and will evaluate all future schedules at an appropriate time.”

Some games have been rescheduled and conferences will be working to try to reschedule other games. The SEC left open an option of moving its Dec. 1 league title game to Dec. 8 to give teams a chance to fit in postponed games.

“I’m sure everybody’s preference would be for life to be normal and therefore play the games that were scheduled,” ACC commissioner John Swofford said. “But life isn’t normal.”

After 2 days of indecision, NFL will cancel Week 2 matchups

By DAVE GOLDBERG

“It would have been horrible trying to get ready for this game,” said Lomas Brown of the Giants, who were The NFL’s decision to cancel SunNEW YORK scheduled to play the Packers at Giants Stadium, 10 day’s games was a simple one. miles from the World Trade Center and a staging area Players were distracted. They didn’t want to fly. for rescue vehicles.

Some said they wouldn’t have played even if the rest of “How can you sit in the stadium and enjoy a footthe league did. ball game, and you look wherever you are sitting and “It really came down to the loss of life and the you see smoke. It just would not have been right. Just ability of players to absorb what we’ve all been coming in here today was bad.”

But players from other teams seemed equally disthrough,” commissioner Paul Tagliabue said. “We felt it was right to take a week to reflect and to help our tracted by the events, especially those with ties to friends, families and people in the community who New York. need our support.”

“I really haven’t had my mind on football,” said Marco Battaglia of Cincinnati, who grew up in New Tagliabue’s decision to cancel because of the terrorist attacks in New York and Washington had the full York, and was one of many players concerned about support of owners, coaches, players and, he said, even friends in the path of the attacks. “Right now, nobody fans. Calling off the games changes the NFL season feels safe anywhere. The thing right now is, let’s get dramatically as did the strikes in 1982 and 1987, the America secure.” only other time the league wiped out games.

The White House said it was consulted, but did not take part in the NFL’s final decision. “We asked them There are two options for the rest of the season: —Thirty teams would play 15 games and San Diego to use their best judgment about whether to proceed,” would play 16: The Chargers were scheduled to be off administration spokesperson Anne Womack said.

Most of the owners are old enough to remember the this week.

—Wild-card games would be canceled and this November weekend in 1963, when President Kennedy week’s games would be played on wild-card Sunday, was assassinated. Two days afterward, the NFL went Jan. 6. That would put eight teams instead of 12 in the on with its games, a decision commissioner Pete playoffs—the six division winners and one wild-card in Rozelle called the worst he made in his 29-year tenure.

Tagliabue said that while he thought of 1963 and each conference instead of three.

Even if the league had played, three teams would the discussions he had long afterward with Rozelle, “I realized that this was unprecedented. We had the loss not have—the New York Giants and Jets, the Washington Redskins—what the league called “the teams at of life of innocent citizens in New York, Washington NFL COMMISSIONER PAUL TAGLIABUE officially announced the and on four airliners.” cancellation of Week 2 Thursday. ground zero.”

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To play or not to play —that is the question By playing sports, America Americans should use the upcoming days will demonstrate its resolve for grieving, not watching sports events Dear Prudence, Nevermind or beat their rival By the time you receive this at chess?

They say that baseball and letter, it’ll be Friday morning, and three whole days will have music and whatever other passed since I first saw those “insignificant” passion we may have down here does not planes and choked on that rubble and shed those tears. Only account for much in the face of such disaster, and I don’t think you, with your infallible possession of tact and decorum, know that anybody can dispute that. when the appropriate time to However, what makes the stop the grieving and begin the casualty numbers so utterly impossible to swallow is the healing will occur.

You see, I’ve been struggling fact that every single digit repwith that down here. Even resents a life of a human being who loved the Redskins or Led Tuesday night, exhausted, frantic and slightly numb from a Zeppelin or poker night with guys. day’s worth of Blitzer and the soBrokaw, I shifted my thoughts These away from one ofthe worst days called trivialidefined in our nation’s history to the ties best of my own. Forgive me. personalities Anyway, I imagined myself and endeared as a lot younger—around people to their nine—playing hooky from Ms. hearts.

Frost’s class. My dad allowed These trifles Greg Veis me this freedom that April are part of the afternoon because it was equation that makes human life Opening Day at Dodger so damn precious; At some point, and personalStadium. The perfect mow of the grass, the smell of hot dogs ly I believe sooner than later, and peanuts, the conversation though you know best, I feel as about the game with my pops—- if we survivors can prove our completely cliched, but still resolve to those bastards by without question, one of the showing them that they have stolen lives, but not a nation’s purest days of my life.

So Wednesday morning I sense of joy and camaraderie. awoke to hear Giants’ reliever In the coming days, I want to Wayne Gomes confess, “The see what George and the more I watched the news, the Washington crew do next, I more scared I got and the more want to celebrate the heroism of I started to realize how what the rescue workers in New York we do for a living is so minimal and Washington, I want to compared to the greater grieve with my countrymen over scheme of things in life.” For a the most devastating event in second, I agreed with him. How my lifetime, and at the same couldn’t I? It’s human lives vertime, but to a much lesser extent, I also want to see if my sus earned run averages.

Then, and this is where I’m Dodgers can earn a spot in the still searching for answers from National League playoffs.

Believe me, Prudence, I am not you Prudence, I remembered how I felt at the ballpark that being delusional here. Though I am only human, I do not believe Opening Day, and all of a sudden I wasn’t so sure anymore. that I am incapable of combining Of course, this is just me, and I all those desires into my daily am a rabid sports fan, but what routine, and I do not think that about the way other kids just they are that disparate. like me felt the first time they Dear Prudence, when will I heard Cobain’s wail on see you smile again?

Monday night I sat with friends lamenting the fact that Barry Bonds had hit his 63rd home run, putting him in position to set the singleseason record.

I don’t know about anyone else, but I miss

Monday night.

Now we sit on the other side of worst attack on the United States in our nation’s history.

I spent the early part of Tuesday morning in an absolute panic trying to figure out where in Western Pennsylvania that plane crash-landed.

My entire family lives in the area.

The rest of the day was devoted to tracking down everyone I know who lives in New York.

Most work in the financial sector, and most work in lower Manhattan. I didn’t account for the last person until around 9 p.m. He was on the first floor of review

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the World Trade Center when the plane hit.

Thankfully I everyone know survived.

Sadly, I’m sure not everyone at Duke was so lucky.

Wednesday morning, this campus, and this country woke up and asked the awful question, “What now?”

The sports world found itself in the same predicament.

Faced with an abysmal situation, virtually every major sport has canceled events through Saturday.

They did the right thing.

I understand that a lot of people don’t feel this is the right decision. There is a widespread belief that by canceling sporting events, we give the terrorists exactly what they want.

We allow them to alter our lives; we allow them to force us to live in fear.

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ed as much when they argued that the ACC should play on.

On top of this is the argument that, more than anything else, America needs a distraction right now.

I understand both of these arguments, but in this case, they are misguided.

As I write this, officials are still sorting through the rubble. There isn’t a body count yet, but it is going to be staggering.

I’m not mentioning this for shock value—l don’t think most of us can even be shocked at this point—but rather to point out the terrible

fact that it is going to be days before everyone who lost a loved one is notified.

As I said before, I didn’t lose a loved one in

this tragedy. But someone on this campus probably did.

I don’t know about anyone else, but I am mortified at the possibility of someone finding out that their father, or mother, or sister, or best friend from high school is never coming home, at the same time the people down the hall are screaming at the TV during the MiamiWashington game.

This situation is not without precedent.

In 1963, President John F. Kennedy was assassinated in Dallas on a Thursday forcing, NFL Commissioner Pete Rozelle to make a rapid decision.

Rozelle decided that the deceased president would want the NFL to play on. So the NFL did not allow terror to alter its schedule and, collegiate athletics adopted the same policy.

Upon his retirement, Rozelle was ask if he regretted anything from his brilliant career as commissioner. He had one answer. I think you can guess what it was.

It’s not just history supporting cancellations.

The NFL Players Association stated that if necessary, the season could be cut to 15 games, as long as they wouldn’t have to play this weekend. Vinny Testaverde, quarterback of the New York Jets, said that he couldn’t understand why

playing was even a consideration.

I don’t believe in canceling these games out of fear. However, I do believe in showing respect for the dead.

Thousands of innocent Americans died this week, simply for being in the wrong place at the

wrong time.

If it wasn’t a loved one of yours, it very well could have been.

In addition to those innocent victims, America has lost some ofits bravest.

Hundreds of firefighters and policemen were killed trying to rescue those trapped inside the WTC. I know that the world must go on, but acting like nothing happened won’t make this go away.

We owe the families and friends ofthose who perished in this tragedy a weekend to grieve. I think they deserve that more than the rest of us deserve a distraction.

We will bury our dead and we will, to the best of our ability, move on.

America will survive a weekend without televised athletics. I think most ofthe nation just got a reminder of how precious friends and family truly are.

Go spend some time with them.

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Learn about this fascinating interdisciplinary program and its internship at local child care agencies. Open to all undergraduates'. Come by 02 Allen or call 684-2075.

2 Bedroom 1 bath duplex Apt. Hardwood floors, storage space, and walking distance to Duke. $460/ month plus security. Call 919-732-2421.

LESBIGAYTRANS DISCUSSION & SUPPORT GROUP. TUESDAYS, 3:30-SP.M. 211 FLOWERS BLDG. .IN OUT AND IN BETWEEN. A SAFE & CONFIDENTIAL DISCUSSION GROUP FOR LESBIAN, GAY, 81, & TRANSGENDER PEOPLE AT DUKE. Sponsored by the Center tor LGBT Life and CAPS. 6846607 or lgbtcenter@duke.edu.

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Childcare needed ASAP for out 7 month old son. 5:00-7:00 pm, ave. 2 days per week. Must be flexible to work extra evenings as needed, have reliable transportation and childcare references. $B/hr. call 403-7351.

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Houses For Rent 1810 Albany close to Duke 3BR 1 fenced across 1/2BA yard Hillandale golf course Quiet neighborhood $BBO/mo 419-8850 2412 Englewood, 2BR/IBA, WD. FP, porch, central to campus.

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Meetings DUKE IN LOS ANGELES PROGRAM SPRING 2002 Information meetings, Thursday, Sept. 13, 2:30. Friday, Sept. 14, 4:00. Both' in 107 Art Museum. http://wvw.duke.edu/web/film/Diike -in-LA

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Saturday The University Program in Ecology presents Paul Mou, UNG Greensboro. “Root Development in Heterogenous Nutrient March of Dimes WalkAmerica takes place at Centenary United Methodist Church in Environments.” A247 LSRC, 12:45pm.

Smithfield. Registration is at 8:00 am, the Freewater Films: “Snatch," with Guy walk begins at 9:00 am.

Ritchie, Benicio Dei Toro, Brad Pitt, Vinnie Screenings, for men Jones. Tickets are free to Duke students, Free Prostate Cancer 40 and over. 8:00 am to 12 noon, at age and for all oth$5 $4 for Duke employees, Center, Inc., ers. For information, call 684-2911. 7:00, Lincoln Community Health Clinic.

1301 Fayetteville Adult Medical Theater, CenBryan 9:30 pm. Griffith Film Street in Durham. Call 919-956-4025. ter, West Campus. for Life will take place The Global Rhythms’ International Dance The 7th Annual Run race I will start at 8:30 am The in Raleigh.

10;00 to FREE. all and it is Party Open pm in the Von Canon rooms at the Bryan at Fallon Park near Our Lady of Lourdes Church. Interested for more inforCenter Co-sponsored by International As- Catholic call the race director Mary Angelini mation, sociation, Hellenic Association, Chinese at 845-9296.

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Teer House: Infant/Child CPR and Safety.

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Seagrove Pottery invites you to the 25th annual. Southern Randolph Country Days Gospel Singing. Beginning at 12 noon, at the Streetfair in downtown Seagrove. Call 336-873-7280.

Quadrangle Pictures: “Bridget Jones’s Diary.” Tickets are $4 for Duke students and Duke employees (cash or flex), and $5 for the all others. For information, call 684-2911. 7:00 and 10:00 pm. Griffith Film Theater, Bryan Center.

Encounters with the Music of Our Time: Music by Cuban-American composer Tania Le6n. Soprano Terry Rhodes and guitarist Arthur Kampala will be joined by Duke and local musicians. Free. For information, call 660-3300. 8:00 pm. Nelson Music Room, East Duke Building, East Campus.

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Cultural groups encourage community togetherness know is the vic-

Changes to come

We join the world in expressing our deepest sor-

emotions swirl after Tuesday’s terrorist attacks, the weekend offers an opportunity for silent introspection to those who can afford it.

The events in New York City and Washington, D.C., brought the horror of international terrorism not only into Americans’ living rooms, but also onto their streets. This country has experienced terrorism before—from the Marine barracks in Lebanon in 1983 to the Oklahoma City federal building in 1995—but the events of this week were a wake-up call to the vulnerability ofits borders. Never before had there been such a coordinated attack on the U.S. mainland, and although hope continues that this will remain an isolated incident, America now understands better the situations in Northern Ireland and the Middle East. Fear is no longer based on hypothetical.

If the attacks are to remain isolated, Americans should expect some changes in their lifestyles. Some of these changes may be subtle, but they will all be significant. Officials will scrutinize airport policies, building structures and government intelligence. The challenge will come in accommodating restrictions to the diverse values of Americans. This nation has always cherished its devotion to liberty, and it now must decide if security is worth even a small compromise of that freedom.

Precious little has been made publicly known about the people and motives behind these attacks. The situation aboard the hijacked planes was described by passengers on cellular phones. A Florida flight school has confirmed that it trained some of the hijackers. And Osama bin Laden has quite clearly become the target ofthe U.S. government’s investigation. Eventually, more facts will come to light, and the terrorists—whether they are bin Laden or anyone else must be hunted down and brought to justice. They have committed criminal acts.

Less compelling have been the calls for immediate military action, especially against the nation suspected of harboring bin Laden, Afghanistan. Citizens must stand by their leaders in times of crisis, but in a democracy, citizens must also advise their leaders. No foreign state has actively provoked the United States. A counterattack now would not only be impractical and indiscriminate, but would very likely result in the deaths of civilians. Americans should not fall to the level of terrorists, but instead discard the cycle ofviolence. Rather than return to the ugly business of toppling foreign regimes, the United States must exhaust diplomatic alternatives. If used at all, violence should be a last resort. We have not yet reached that point.

Government officials have used rhetoric appropriate for a courtroom—they “accuse” bin Laden, naming him as a “suspect”—while at the same time, they have declared a “war against terrorism.” Revenge is not justice. A peace-loving people does not jump into war. America must overcome the stinging temptation for violence.

This nation also faces a small window to crystallize its relations with other countries. Our foreign policy has undergone drastic oscillations since the fall of the Soviet empire. Now is the time to throw off hesitation, forge new relationships and re-establish the United States’ leadership in the world. America’s protective bubble has burst once again, and the nation should apply that new perspective to the greater community.

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row for the tragedies that have unfolded this week. No words can express the extent of grief and shock we all feel in this time of tragedy. And yet, as our nation looks ahead to face the tribulation and aftermath, we must remember the ties that bind, and it is imperative for us all to pull together in mutual support of each other, rather than let anything split us apart.

A coalition of our organizations is involved in several support efforts on campus, We invite everyone to share in these with us.

We have planned together to use the Mary Lou Williams Center for Black Culture as an informal gathering place for students. This will be a place to talk, do homework and to provide a comfortable and personal setting for people to share their experiences in this

tragedy with each other.

Unity Conversations: Through Adversity, a joint effort of the Diya and

Muslim Student Alliance

peer network, will be meeting Saturday at 6 p.m. in the Blackwell Dormitory commons room. Come to talk, or just to hang out, regarding the recent tragedies and negative repercussions affecting our communities.

A Reflections Wall has been erected in the Bryan Center for everyone to offer their thoughts, and share messages of grief, support and prayer with one another.

Relief efforts are underway to provide monetary support to Duke students directly affected by this crisis. There are also ongoing blood drives that we encourage everyone to participate in to relieve blood shortages Look. for other relief programs in coming weeks.

Though we hope this does not happen, in case you or

someone you tim of a hate crime, please inform your residential adyisor and the Duke University Police Department as soon as possible. We will have additional resources in the support center at your disposal, and feel free to contact any

one of us for help, Again, we encourage you Ml to participate in these cornmon efforts with us, as well as other efforts across campus, We extend our heartfelt thoughts and prayers to all those affected, in our community and our nation

Brian Fried Trinity ’O2

Lala Quadir Trinity ’O2

Saima Hussain Trinity ’O2 AND 10 OTHERS The writers constitute the presidents of 10 campus cultural organizations.

Terrorists’ attack could have come much earlier Pavel Molchanov wrote and capitols of government becomes keeping terrorists off planes, or barring that, keep13 of “the loss of and commerce attacked withAmerica’s innocence,” a out the authorities having a ing armed marshals on phrase that I’ve been hearing clue”? The answer is simple: planes. The former seems ultibandied about a great deal If people are willing to die for mately impossible to me, the these last 48 hours by televi- it, they can land a plane on latter has apparently worked sion news commentators. It the White House lawn. The well for other countries but I mystifies me a little. Did world’s known that ever since still question its safety.

I agree with the majority everyone really believe that a guy did just that a few of Molchanov’s article, but America was inviolable? years ago.

I work a few hundred not with his characterization Perhaps I’m just a pessimist foreign outlook on relafrom the Pentagon, on of the intelligence and yards in my tions, but I am honestly quite the banks of the Potomac. national security authorities surprised that a terrorist act Normally, I can watch out my as having failed us. They kept of this magnitude was not window as a steady stream of this from happening for a planes lands at and takes off much longer time than I successfully carried out earlier. I think it speaks very from the airport, all coming would have expected. With highly of those “intelligence within spitting distance of weapons of mass destruction and national security authorthe Pentagon. The lesson and biological weapons ities” whom Molchanov rails here, in my opinion, is that increasingly on the black market, who is to say how against that this sort of you shouldn’t build an airtragedy did not befall us port so close to the Pentagon. often they have saved us all You can’t shoot down a and then, in the interests of sooner, particularly given plane in time to save the national security, told no one? their reduced funding.

Molchanov wants to know, Pentagon if the pilot suddenfeels entitled to know, “how ly veers toward it.

Dan Fowlkes The logical solution, then, Trinity ’OO four airliners can be hijacked Sept.

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On a normal day, system-wide, we’d run about 4,500 flights. Today will he in the low hundreds.

US Airways spokesperson Rick Weintraub on the reduced air traffic (see story, page three)

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FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 14, 2001 �PAGE 15

A world crumbles

Younger Americans have had little exposure to the reality of war

The apartment above mine is flying an American flag. I saw it last night wen ooked up to scan the skies, squinting through the haze that has drifted into midtown Manhattan on the north wind. Days ago, 1 smelled this haze, the

ing and get dressed. But now, after jeans and T-shirts, we are donning gks masks and goggles. We are scared to walk under bridges. Every boom, every flash of light could be another attack. Even if they say the next attack will be biological, seeping out from the city center, creeping and deadlier than the first. remains of burning Is this what war is like? My generabuildings and papers tion is too young to remember bomb and bodies, as a drills. What little we know of battle Mary reporter working for comes from CNN. And that, too was Carmichael Newsweek the night of never real. In seventh grade, with the oc^s blocks near the beginning of the Gulf War, I wrote in World Trade Center, it hung in the air, a my diary, “My friend’s brother is going stench that could only bring to mind to Iraq. I’m scared. I hate Saddam concentration camps and war.

Hussein.” These days, I can barely find It didn t hit me, not until this haze the time or the words to keep a diary, descended on my neighborhood, my These days are not something I want apartment, that this is where we are— to remember. And yet we must not forat war. It wasn’t real when I heard it on get them. the news, crackling through my radio in This is what I will never forget: alternate bursts of fact and speculation.

A woman sobbing on a crosstown It wasn’t real when I sat in a makeshift bus. She had just gotten off the subway morgue and triage center, waiting and when the plane hit. She worked on the waiting for patients—survivors—who 25th floor of the World Trade Center, never came. It wasn’t real when I Her friend was supposed to report for her first day of outside the remains work at the Center 7 of the World Trade Lr OCX K HOWS that VO6 V 6 at 3 p.m.

Center the night A huge black after the attack, i never seen anything like room, a film-studiosaw fire trucks turned-treatmentrr-a 7*7 r crushed under a thlS 1 here IS TLO center, with rows and rows of blanbridge and papers 7 7 drifting in the air explanation no analogue keted tables, IVs and men crying— and crash carts. r r and stiii, the scene no jramc oj reference, Empty. All of them. was not real.

A list of names ows of Duke alums who we’ve never seen anything like this were safe, and the stark realization before. There is no explanation, no anathat some names were missing. logue, no frame of reference. New A three-year-old girl placing daisies Yorkers, and the rest of America, are at a deserted fire station, and then suddenly, simultaneously brave and tersmiling, not understanding why the rified. We will keep working. We will flowers were there.

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on top of the rubble outside of the WTC, as its pages were flapping in the wind, with tiny, crunched handwriting, dates and stock quotes and

of us will ever be far enough from horror again. lam back at Newsweek’s offices now. I just got an assignment. I will not be at the grave of the twin towers 7 7 tonight. Instead, lam <W6 going out to find the r COTTieS [Wm victims’families. lam tracking down the A 77

names scribbled in the margins. n 7 As I bent to pick up the notebook that r 11 night—less than 24 OT hours after the deadly TX T attack—l heard a tiUXt tOO mourners, conveying scream. And then the grief of New York 7 there was a chorus of WUS TLCV6T TCUi. to the people of screams. “It’s coming America. lam spenddown! Move! Move!” ing the rest of my There was no time to look up. I evening, and probably the rest of this wrapped my arms around my head week, at vigils for the dead. and crouched on the ground. A sharp In some ways, we all are. sheet of metal screeched down from the sky and landed five feet from me. Mary Carmichael, Trinity ’Ol, is a forAnd I ran, knowing that I could never mer executive editor of The Chronicle be far enough away, knowing that none and a reporter for Newsweek.

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T.S. Eliot, “The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock” During a week like this one, the luxury of choosing what to write about is put on hold. There is one obvious topic on which most of our minds linger, and there is one obvious topic for me to discuss. The challenge is taking a situation as grave and delicate as this one and serving it justice with words. It’s like in high school English when we were taught to psychoanalyze Shakespeare, Milton and Faulkner —if they only knew what silly diagnoses my pretentious, 16year-old self prescribed them in my Mary papers. Such inadequacy is my Adkins biggest fear today.

Since the fourth grade homework assignment when I was instructed to go home and ask my parents where they were when President John Kennedy got shot, I’ve been intrigued by their generation. Every student in my class came back with an answer —

because everyone’s parents remembered the exact moment they heard the news in 1963. Their whole age group was connected by a single, national event with which they could compare stories and remember feelings. Our generation’s defining event occurred Tuesday at 8:45 a.m.

For years to come, the question will be, “Where were you when the World Trade Center collapsed?” and the responses will trigger memories both tragic and inspiring. We’ll describe to our children and grandchildren the day terrorists declared war on America by pulling off an unfathomably devastating feat. Then we’ll likely digress into how it affected the world afterward. But those stories will come later.

Right now, the more immediate question on all of our instinct to horror, the reaction that Bacon would conminds is, “What do we do from here?” sider the raw truth of my identity? To be with others.

The question is as much personal as it is political.

If the several thousand people who died yesterday Certainly, our nation as a whole has decisions to could have one more day, my guess is that very few make about how it will react to the attack. But on a of them would choose to spend it alone. You’ve heard more local level, how we respond as individuals to a the hypothetical one-more-day situation a million crisis like this one can be just as telling of our char- times, and you think you know the lesson behind it.

“People are what matter most, not material things.” acter and just as difficult to decide.

My story will go something like this: Yeah, yeah, yeah. We know.

The morning of Sept. 11, But we all need to be reminded of it sometimes, because as -2001, I walked into my neighcliched, mushy and idealistic as bor’s room chewing a bagel. I POT tO COTTI6 tflC watched the twin towers colthe lesson is, it is true, and if avrl lapse for the first time —top to CjUCStIOTI any good can be drawn from a DC, bottom, one after the other, on tragedy such as this one, it’s that reminder. My guess is that NBC. It was 10:40. I thought of W6T6 yOli WilCTl the movie Independence Day the impulse I had after the ? tragedy—the one that kept me and compared the two cata- iTCiCLC L>CTItCT from starting on my barrel of strophic scenes—one real, one work and sent me instead to Hollywood’s—in my head. Then the notion of the people inside those buildings struck Wal-Mart with my best friend on a beef jerky spree—me, and I felt hollow. I became overwhelmed with an is just a sliver of what many of yesterday’s victims urge to find my friends, to be with them and to call were feeling in their final moments, my family. The rest of the day, my craving to be with Connections with people are what matter. More other people didn’t leave me. I didn’t need to talk as than possessions, more than achievements, more than absent-minded, drunken fun, and I’d dare to much as I did just to know their presence.

There’s a 20th century artist named Francis say more even than creations that we leave behind Bacon who believes that only during time of terror is once we’re gone. One of the best ways to respect the true nature of what it means to be human real- those lost and those losing this week is to live our ized. His paintings capture scenes of people in pain lives with relationships at the core of them, because and agony because he thinks these expressions they no longer have that chance. Call your parents, reflect their fundamental being. Throughout the day Ditch your stats homework. Go to Elmo’s for four of Sept. 11,1 was terrified—terrified ofthe projected hours and blow straw covers at your best friends’ death rate that no one spoke but everyone under- noses. You won’t regret it stood, terrified for the unaccounted for planes that still flew, terrified for America. And what was my gut Mary Adkins is a Trinity sophomore.

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