When I write, I try to use language in an efficient way, the way a journalist does - you have little space and time and have to grab your reader by the neck and not let go. That's what I try to do with language: create tension. - Isabel Allende Interview, Isabel Allende website, 1999 ":http://www.isabelallende.com"
The purpose of this site is to help acquaint you less with the events of 9-11 than with the broader cultural and historical background of terrorism. Thus this site focuses less on recent developments -- the latest actions in Afghanistan or the investigations of the anthrax outbreak -- than on analyses of the roots of those events which have had such a transformative effect on all of our lives.