The New Normal
one month has elapsed since the attacks on america. people say their lives are back to normal, but they also sense that 'normal' is different now - SERIOUS, patriotic, more prayerful.
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The threat today requires America to look outward in the world and take its own actions more seriously, says Mr. Lamm.
He muses that this might even mean a decline in applications to law and business schools, as students turn from the path of comfortable prosperity toward positions in the military, the clergy, and government, which promise a different kind of reward.
No longer is America an isolated island of tranquility. What happens in Kashmir affects the US. It always did, but now more people - many more - know it.
"Now everything is global," says Gregorian.
* Nineteen terrorists hijack four US passenger jets, smashing two of them into the World Trade Center. A third plane crashes into the Pentagon. The fourth plane is downed in Pennsylvania, possibly during a scuffle between some of the passengers and the hijackers. The death toll stands at more than 5,400.
* Despite fire and power outages, many Pentagon employees return to work.
* Most of the nation's airports reopen for business.
* At the request of New York Mayor Rudolph Giuliani, the lights go back on on Broadway.
* President Bush addresses Congress and the nation.
* Mr. Bush announces he has called up reservists for homeland defense. Later, he tours the site of the World Trade Center attack.
* All the major networks and many cable stations simulcast a telethon, featuring stars such as Bruce Springsteen. It raises more than $150 million for victims of the attack.
* Bush names Saudi exile Osama bin Laden the "prime suspect" in the attacks.
* New York emergency workers ring the opening bell for the New York Stock Exchange, as trading resumes for the first time since the attacks.
* Talk-show host David Letterman returns to TV.
* Major League Baseball resumes games.
* Bush signs into law a $40 billion package for recovery and investigation efforts.
* Congress passes a $15 billion bailout package for the airline industry.
* National Football League resumes its season.
* Bush orders US flags raised to full staff.
* New Yorkers vote in mayoral primary, originally scheduled for Sept. 11. Media tycoon Michael Bloomberg wins GOP nomination. Democrats Mark Green and Fernando Ferrer will enter a runoff Oct. 11.
* NATO pronounces US evidence against Osama bin Laden persuasive, and members vow support.
* Reagan National Airport in Washington reopens, the last US airport to do so.
* President Bush authorizes $320 million in aid to help Afghan refugees and citizens devastated by drought and civil war.
* US and British jets launch attacks on more than two dozen targets against Taliban regime in Afghanistan and the Al Qaeda network.
* Former Pennsylvania Gov. Tom Ridge begins work as the head of the Office of Homeland Security.
* US jets begin daytime raids over Afghanistan - an indication that the Taliban's air defenses have been badly damaged. Civilian casualties are unknown.
