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Back-channel me with your friend's name, Erminia, and I'll check the message boards for you (there are about a dozen now, including the underground ones)--Candice > I still have no news of my Italian friend a Professor of Literary Criticism > of the University of Siena who left Italy three days ago to stay in the > same apartment in low Manhattan were I have been in august and who has > taken there is 5 years old son to visit the City and its attractions. The > liens are busy and there is no answer. > > My pain and sorrow for New Yorkers is immense and unspeakable. When I > recently visited the City in the last week of August, I though it was the > most friendly, charming and lively place I had ever seen, with great > dignity and humanity and I though that the media make injustice to it. I > was with Ram at the Tribeca Grill in the vicinity of the twin towers and > was pleasantly surprises of the way this international center of business > had kept almost a provincial relaxed atmosphere, with people strolling in > the street, talking to each other, helping foreigners, talking to them, > even accompanying them on the very spot where they had to go, nothing like > that I ever experienced in all the country that I have visited. > > I loved it and loved the American people's sense of hospitality and warmth. > This is a tragedy of unprecedented proportion. My heart is in mourning for > all the victim. > > Erminia