US: Resiliency in times of crisis

I was in New York City, and then in parts of Eastern Pennsylvania, from mid- to late-October to observe up close the 2008 US presidential campaign. The trip, hosted by the US State Department, involved 26 other foreign journalists from Asia, Africa, the former Russia and the Middle East, and included coverage of the third presidential debate in Hofstra University in Long Island, New York, on October 15 (October 16 morning in Manila).