The Anniversary: Local coverage from two newspapers

The NYTimes special A Nation Challenged looks to be the best anniversary coverage to check out.

The Philadelphia Inquirer’s is a must read as well. You got to give The Inquirer credit – it does something that the Times does not – actually link to non-affiliated sites.

I really like the Inquirer’s lead story, by Dick Polman, “Our Old Selves”:

…Now we know better.

Now we know that, even amid our continued mourning for those who died on Sept. 11, we can’t stem the most fundamental traits of our natural character, including our rambunctiousness, our love of argument, our impulse to question authority, our inherent pursuit of happiness…

By The Numbers: Statistics and facts