NEW YORK – On a clear and cool Saturday, with bells ringing, bagpipes playing and a chorus singing, thousands gathered near ground zero to observe the ninth anniversary of the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks as a storm of controversy swirled over the proposed construction nearby of a mosque and Islamic center and the aftermath of [...]
The lesson of 9/11 is to remember where we are, not where we were. But where were you? At work on New York and Pentagon and Pennsylvania-field Eastern time? Driving some Central time zone commute near Oklahoma City where the then deadliest terrorist attack in America’s history exploded six years before 9/11′s beautiful autumn day? [...]
President Barack Obama will mark the ninth anniversary of the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks by attending a memorial service at the Pentagon, the White House said Tuesday. Vice President Joe Biden will attend services Saturday at the site of the former World Trade Center in New York City, administration spokesman Robert Gibbs said in his [...]
A week from Tuesday will be the second anniversary of Lehman Brothers’ bankruptcy and the ensuing panic that helped spawn the deepest recession since the Great Depression. Yet two years on, a mystery remains about the fateful weekend before Lehman’s fall, The New York Times’s Andrew Ross Sorkin writes in his latest DealBook column. Last [...]
Blocks away from a huge rally by conservative activists, civil right leader Al Sharpton led a counter-protest to honor the legacy of the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr., who galvanized the civil rights movement 47 years ago with his “I have a dream speech.” Sharpton and some other African American leaders took umbrage at conservative [...]
NEW ORLEANS — As New Orleans observes the fifth anniversary of Hurricane Katrina – “celebrates” is not the right word – a swirl of emotions has enveloped the city. There is a palpable sense of good fortune at simply being alive, tempered by unrequited grief and anger, remembrance of loss, flashbacks of post-traumatic stress, and [...]
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