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Article: When power is not enough.(United States response to terrorism)(Brief Article)
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- National Catholic Reporter
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- September 21, 2001
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Getting them -- whoever they are this time -- won't keep America safe.
The heart goes numb at the thought of it.
At Xavier University's academic convocation on "The Effects of Globalization," the ethicist and the economist were speaking about the challenges and problems that come with global economic development. The Jesuit had already told us that there were lessons to be relearned today from the lives of Jesuit missionaries like Mateo Ricci and John DeBrito who had been sensitive to the cultures in which they worked.
Then, in the middle of it all, the cell phone rang for the first time. The World Trade Center had been barraged, the voice on ...