I’m sure you remember a hijacking years ago that changed everything in our country. After that terrible event, the feelings toward us of people around the world were different. Here at home, we changed how we treat each other. People say it might take us 100 years to get over it all. The hijacking I’m referring to isn’t the one in which terrorists hit buildings with airplanes, although that was truly terrible. What made people around the world feel differently about us

When Chris and I visited a rugmaker's gallery in Morocco in 1995, we were enchanted by the rich colors, the gorgeous patterns, the acrid smells, the foreignness of the entire experience. The refined salesman, fluent in English, Spanish and Arabic, could convert prices into a dozen different currencies in his head. He showed us increasingly smaller rugs as the reality of our meager budget became clear to him. At one point he mentioned that young children worked in his fac