WTC attacks etched on New York psyche
US: Some days New Yorkers look up and remark
wistfully that the sky is the same blue as on Sept. 11, 2001. Other
days they look up at the sound of an airplane, momentarily worried
that it may be flying too low. New Yorkers, often characterized by
outsiders as rude, if not hard-hearted, were dramatically changed by
the hijacked plane attacks that felled the World Trade Center towers
a decade ago.
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Civilian Afghan surge cost US $2 bln
US: A surge of U.S. civilian advisers into
Afghanistan has cost nearly $2 billion so far, a U.S. government
watchdog said on Thursday, calculating the price of an important
part of President Obama’s war strategy.
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Obama jobs push gets steely welcome
US: Even praise for Republican icon Abraham
Lincoln failed on Thursday to melt the icy welcome President Barack
Obama’s skeptical political foes gave his fiery, high-stakes jobs
speech. Packed in the House of Representatives for a rare joint
session of the US Congress, Republicans sat in stony silence as
Obama invoked the president who kept civil war from sundering the
United States a century and a half ago.
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