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Protection for a Moral Budget        "What?" I shouted.  "Turn
on your TV and get down here as soon as you can."  The hours
that followed Roger's phone call still play in my mind like a
horrible slide presentation. Throwing on clothes and bolting out
the door, screaming over my shoulder for my husband to please
call my best friend in New York City to see if she was okay.
Driving in a panic through the West Side of Chicago toward the
newspaper offices downtown, while listening to reports from
Manhattan on the car radio and scanning the sky over the city's
skyscrapers for airplanes. Praying for divine intervention, for
the horror not to be true.  I vividly recall parking my car on
the top level of the garage across from the Sun-Times building
and stopping to stare at the Sears' Tower a few blocks away. "Oh
my God," I prayed aloud. "Please protect us."  When I arrived in
the newsroom, my fir