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 NEW YORK - Hopes were fading on Thursday that more survivors would be found from an attack two days earlier that demolished the World Trade Center towers, now feared to be a mass tomb where thousands may be buried. The preliminary death toll had reached 82 by early Thursday but was expected to rise sharply in the days and weeks to come. New York City ordered 30,000 extra body bags. About 40,000 people worked in the buildings, and New York Mayor Ru dolph Giuliani said he feared a few thousand had been trapped in each of the towers. |
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 Almost as soon as news broke of the devastation in New York City and near Washington, D.C., traumatized local residents and expats began gathering near the U. |
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WASHINGTON - Before all of it, when the World Trade Center still existed and the Pentagon was intact, when the president wasn't yet being temporarily hidden and people across the country weren't yet in tears, when the U.S. borders were open and no mass evacuations had been ordered, there was the ordinary business of four jets climbing into the air. |
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WASHINGTON/NEW YORK - An international probe into the shadowy Middle Eastern figures allegedly behind this week's terror strikes on the United States gathered pace on Thursday, as U.S. President George W. Bush and his administration continued diplomatic efforts to mobilize a global coalition to crush those responsible for Tuesday's four deadly hijackings. |
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President Vladimir Putin held a late-night telephone conversation with U.S. President George W. Bush, the Kremlin said on Thursday, one of a series of exchanges to discuss joint action on guerrilla attacks. |
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LONDON - Harrowing images of the attack on the World Trade Center beamed into homes will have triggered trauma and grief not just in the United States but around the globe, experts said on Thursday. Even people with no link to the tragedy may suffer vicarious trauma - seeing the horror and imagining that it could have happened to a family member or a friend. Counsellors and psychologists said the full impact of the world's worst terror attack in which thousands are feared dead will be difficult to predict because it is unprecedented. "The effects of seeing graphic portrayals of death and destruction and people leaping out of windows is likely to have a profound impact on people for a long time to come," said Rhian Thomas of the Samaritans in London. |
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 At first, people refused to believe. Old women who lived through the blockade of Leningrad cried and crossed themselves. Everyone was glued to their television sets. |
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Governor Vladimir Yakovlev and Le nin grad Oblast Governor Valery Ser dyu kov were among the dozens of Russian officials expressing their condolences to the people and government of the United States on Wednesday. Both governors visited the U.S. Consulate on Wednesday morning to leave sympathy messages in a condolence book and to speak with acting U. |
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DALLAS - A firebomb was hurled at a mosque and Islamic school in Texas, a day after windows were shot out at a similar Islamic center near Dallas, police said on Thursday. |
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MOSCOW - The dollar remained relatively firm against the ruble Wednesday and Thursday despite speculation, while stocks rose 1.8 percent Thursday after falling more than 5 percent Wednesday after the attacks on the United States. The panic that made Russians dump dollars on Tuesday was over by Wed nes day morning. |
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LONDON - Guardians of the global economy stabilized shaky financial markets and shored up business and consumer confidence on Thursday to prevent worldwide recession from becoming a self-fulfilling prophecy. |
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NEW YORK - The damage caused by the two airplanes that crashed into New York's World Trade Center on Tuesday will cost insurers worldwide billions of dollars in what may be the most expensive man-made insured event ever. The total bill, which could take years to establish, is likely to top the $3 billion insurers paid out for the Piper Alpha oil platform explosion off the coast of Britain in 1988, the most expensive man-made event to date. |
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GENEVA - World airlines face $10 billion in immediate revenue losses and extra costs due to the terror attacks in the United States, the International Air Transport Association (IATA) said on Thursday. |
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THE first impulse is to strike hard. "America Under Attack" headlines CNN. Anger boils. Members of Congress call for a robust military response. Conventional wisdom expects retribution. The conclusion from Secretary of State Colin Powell to virtually every newspaper columnist is that "this is war. |
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THE unthinkable has happened in New York and the carnage - comparable to the aftermath of a nuclear attack-may prompt the United States to respond in unthinkable ways. |
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A statement from the U.S. Embassy. [On Tuesday] a terrible tragedy was visited upon the United States and the American people. Today, our thoughts and prayers go out to the thousands of people who were killed or injured in the senseless attacks in New York, Washington and Pennsylvania and to their families. |
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St. Petersburg Times reporter Irina Titova spoke to local residents on Wednesday near the American Consulate on Furshtatskaya Ulitsa. |
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 If there were any doubts that the Bolshoi Drama Theater was still capable of staging vibrant drama, the new production of "Dear Pamela," which had its premiere on Tuesday, should put an end to them. After the theater's disappointing last premiere in April - its lacklustre staging of Alexander Ostrovsky's "Talents and Admirers" - "Dear Pamela," directed by Andrei Maximov, is a pleasing break with tradition in a theater that tends to favor a very conservative repertoire. |
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 Joseph Vainshtein, St. Petersburg jazz patriarch and band leader, died of heart failure in Toronto on Sept. 1. Vainshtein, who had lived in Canada since 1983, was 82. |
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No exceptional new talent was discovered at last Sunday's Sounds of the City contest and festival. The idea of this free, cigarette-company-sponsored, open-air event at the unlikely location of Warsaw Station might have sounded fine in theory, but it involved mud from the recent heavy rains, poor sound and scruffy suburban punks fighting. |
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If work has been keeping you too busy to get out of the city this summer, don't despair. Now you can enjoy a little bit of country life without leaving the city center. |
 Conductor Mariss Jansons, born in Riga and educated in St. Petersburg, is now a citizen of the world, a European musical celebrity whose conducting skills are recognized and in demand in all the musical captials of the world: Vienna, Berlin, London and New York. The son of the conductor Arvid Jansons, he has surpassed his father's fame, heading the orchestras of Pittsburgh and Oslo, and next year he will take the post of head conductor of the Bavarian Radio Orchestra. |
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 "Rat Race's" frantic story of a lot of people running after even more money is the most old-fashioned, live-action comedy of the summer, and if you've seen its competition you know that has to be a good thing. |
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Afghans Fear Strike DUBAI (Reuters) - Arab militants in Afghanistan have left their camps in case of U.S. military strikes over Tuesday's U.S. attacks, a London-based newspaper reported on Thursday. "Afghan Arabs have evacuated their bases in anticipation of an imminent strike, especially after the United Nations evacuated its staff [from the country]," the Arabic-language al-Hayat newspaper quoted informed Afghan sources as saying. |
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Coach Killed in Attack SANTA BARBARA, California (AP) - Mari-Rae Sopper, the women's gymnastics coach at UC Santa Barbara, was aboard one of the flights downed by terrorists. |
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