Editor's Page.

On September 11, I sat in my office in Dublin finalizing the content of this winter issue. We were nearing the end of the production cycle, always a busy time for us. Joe Duffy's show on RTE radio was playing in the background. The window was open, and children were playing in the street below. Just an ordinary autumn day. And then our world changed. Just like that. From one second to the next.

The horror of that day is as overwhelming now, weeks later, as it was then, when those unimaginable scenes played out on our television screens. I hear it in the voices of my friends in the US, but I can't quite put my finger on it. There's a wariness, a lack of sureness, a trace of bitterness. It is, I guess, a loss of innocence. And that adds immeasurably to the tragedy of what has happened.

But if good can come of evil--and we have to believe it can--then we must look for it, and recognize it, and honor it. People's inherent goodness and bravery has manifested itself in thousands of ways over the past few weeks. The terrified office workers fleeing the World Trade Center who stopped to carry a wheelchair-bound colleague. The passengers on UA Flight 93 who are believed to have tried to overpower the hijackers when they realized what was planned. And, of course, the emergency services. Surrounded by terror, when every instinct in your body must surely demand that you run to safety, ...