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Up from the ashes

For Blake Allison, it was the phone call as he drove through the Prudential Center tunnel on the way to his Norwood office. He and his wife, Anna, had lingered at Logan Airport until time pushed them on their separate ways - her on a business trip to Los Angeles, him to make an important presentation at work. She called from the tarmac with a favorite phrase. “Just keep me in your pocket,’’ she said.

Kathy Giuggio glided down the Southeast Expressway toward her office in downtown Boston thinking that U2 got it exactly right. “Beautiful Day’’ was playing on her car stereo. The sun glittered on the skyscrapers and splashed on Dorchester Bay. Her week was to end in Bermuda, at the wedding of two colleagues from the Cantor Fitzgerald investment firm - a beautiful day, indeed.

In the kitchen of their quaint house set back from a country road in Easton, Conn., Lee and Eunice Hanson reminisced about the days when their young son, Peter, accompanied them all around the globe. That morning, in Boston, Peter and his wife, Sue, would take their 2 1/2-year-old daughter, Christine, on her first flight, a trip to California, and her proud grandparents waxed about the rhythms and cycles of life.

And so: At 8:46 a.m. on a Tuesday morning exactly 10 years ago, American Airlines Flight 11 bound from Boston to Los Angeles, a wide-body 767 carrying 11 crew members and 81 passengers (including Anna Allison) with hijackers at the controls, slammed into the North Tower of the World Trade Center, striking the 93d to the 99th floors of the 110-story building.

At 9:37 a.m., American Airlines Flight 77, a hijacked Boeing 757 carrying 58 passengers and six crew members from Washington Dulles to Los Angeles, plowed into the Pentagon, killing everyone on board and another 125 military officers and civilian personnel on the ground. Just 22 minutes later, at 9:59 a.m., the South Tower of the World Trade Center collapsed, creating what the 9/11 Commission report would later describe as a “ferocious windstorm’’ and a “massive debris cloud.

Law, Economics & Cycling: Judge Posner Slams the Harvard "Blue ...

Here . I doubt Judge Posner's common sense will ever prevail among the pointy-headed purveyors of legal citation form. I learned basic "Blue Book" style back in law school, and continue to use it when necessary, although I have not bothered to keep up with the cancerous growth (as Judge Posner describes it) of "Blue Book" rules. I don't think I've actually looked at a "Blue Book" in more than 20 years. I only rarely publish in law reviews anymore anyway, but I vastly prefer social science approaches to citations and references, and nearly always use them in my books. I am Professor of Law (Maurer School) and of Public and Environmental Affairs (SPEA) at Indiana University, where I also serve on the affiliated faculty of the Workshop in Political Theory and Policy Analysis. I am also a Life Member of Clare Hall (College of Advanced Studies), University of Cambridge. I am an avid cyclist, hence my nickname, "The Cyclingprof.

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