Editor's Desk.

Editor's Desk. Dear Reader, The shock of Sept. 11 is still fresh for me and for everyone whoworked to put this special issue together. Whether you live near thephysical sites of the disasters, as several Community College Weekwriters and editors do, or whether you watched the fireballs from afar,you probably felt the repercussions repercussionsnpl → r��percussions fplrepercussionsnpl → Auswirkungen pllong after the images faded fromyour sight or your television. Our thoughts are with those who remain missing, and with theirfamilies. The purpose of printing the accounts and photographs of thosewho were there when the buildings fell and of those who are stillgrieving grievingMourning, see there is not to underscore The underscore character (_) is often used to make file, field and variable names more readable when blank spaces are not allowed. For example, NOVEL_1A.DOC, FIRST_NAME and Start_Routine. (character) underscore - _, ASCII 95. their pain, but to acknowledge it. Our thanks go out to the men and women of the college publicaffairs Those public information, command information, and community relations activities directed toward both the external and internal publics with interest in the Department of Defense. Also called PA. See also command information; community relations; public information. offices who helped tell the stories of their campuses amidcrisis -- particularly those who did so amid the chaos and inconvenienceof lower Manhattan Lower Manhattan is the southernmost part of the island of Manhattan, the main island and center of business and government of the City of New York. Lower Manhattan is generally defined as the area delineated on the north by Chambers Street, on the west by the Hudson River (North . As that terrible Tuesday becomes history, I have the deepeningsense that it will become not just a date but a demarcation. BeforeSept. 11, most of us could still traverse our lives with an unthinkingsense of safety. Now I see people instinctively look over theirshoulders when a jet passes overhead. While we can now never look at ourworld in quite the same way again. I hope the watchwords of our newweltansicht will be focus and resiliency, not fear and retrenchment re��trench��mentn.The cutting away of superfluous tissue. . One look at the rubble of the World Trade Center and the Pentagonwill tell you there can be no "closure" to such a gapingwound. But perhaps our community colleges can, in the truest sense oftheir name, build a new and stronger community from the pieces of whatremains. Sincerely, Scott CechScott Cech, Editor, Community College Week10520 Warwick Ave. Suite B-8. Fairfar, VA 22030www.CCWeek.comscottc@cmabiccw.comPhone: (703) 385-2981