Are You Ready?

Salesman Manny Rosales keeps to himself in the showroom, with his own sales philosophy.

The last day of the month begins.

The last day of the month ends.

Radio producer Scott Carrier quit his job at a low moment in his life.

What lessons are civilians taking from the War? One journalist has said that Americans seem condemned "to relive the prewar debates over and over because they were never thrashed out in the sunlight." In Salt Lake City on May 4, the prewar arguments—and some other arguments as well—were re-argued, on stage, by Salt Lake's liberal mayor Rocky Anderson and conservative radio and TV host Sean Hannity.

Scott Carrier and his family live in the same Salt Lake City neighborhood as Elizabeth Smart, the fourteen-year-old whose 2002 kidnapping made international news.