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COPYRIGHT 2003 All rights reserved. Reproduced by permission of The Condé Nast Publications Inc.
Marchers converged on Times Square from every direction on Thursday afternoon. From the Farley Post Office, on Eighth Avenue, came New Yorkers Say No to War, Peace Initiative Turkey, and Code Pink: Women for Peace. The War Resisters League marched in from Bryant Park, Jews Against the Occupation from the New York Public Library, United for Peace and Justice from farther west on Forty-second Street. And up at Columbus Circle it was Youth Bloc and Carnival Bloc and Reclaim the Streets, gathered in freezing, slanting rain--a sodden mass of a few hundred people chanting and beating on homemade drums in, it seemed safe to surmise, a desperate effort both to stay warm and to raise their own spirits the day after American missiles started pounding Baghdad. "Drop Bush, Not Bombs!"they yelled. A mild-looking woman in...
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