Kirk Watson and Gus Garcia on election night Credit: Photo By John Anderson

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Terrorism and the War: The country and the world were stunned by coordinated terrorist attacks on New York City and Washington, D.C., and the subsequent “war against terrorism” in Afghanistan. The death tolls mount: approximately 3,000 people in New York, several hundred more in D.C. and on the planes, an estimated 3,700 civilians from the bombing in Afghanistan, and millions in danger of starvation in the harsh winter aftermath.

It is not a single story, nor a simple one — but we will live with its national and international consequences for many years to come.

This article appears in 2001.

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