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Just days after the destruction of the World Trade Center, our pundits and politicians starting talking about “finding closure” and telling us to “get back to normal.” Reminds me, oddly, of a cartoon (probably from the New Yorker) I saw in the late 1950s. Somewhere by the road in a desert, an Arab has unrolled […] When the final count becomes known, however, Staten Island may well take a disproportionate hit in the injuries and fatalities department, since many Islanders work in the Wall St. area (all those Working Girl secretaries, among so many others), and many more of them are police and firefighters and EMS personnel. […] |