Defiance is no antidote for fear

In effect, Americans have been holding our breaths since 9/11. On Monday, in sorrow, they exhaled, writes Anne Taylor

SO another day with another infamous history: Apr 15, 2013. That date has now been internalised in our collective guts. Alas, it is an easy one to remember. The Boston Marathon — a race that will never again be run without a shiver of fear, a dark cloud.

Something so darkly grim about runners losing their limbs.