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On Terror's Trail: A Boston Globe Reporter Searches For Answers In The Wake Of September 11, Brian Macquarrie
On Terror's Trail: A Boston Globe Reporter Searches For Answers In The Wake Of September 11, Brian Macquarrie
Colby Magazine
Veteran Boston Globe reporter Brian MacQuarrie ’74 often is dispatched to scenes of tragedy, catastrophe or simple human drama. When Gianni Versace was murdered, it was MacQuarrie who was sent to Miami. When a man went on a shooting rampage in Colebrook, N.H., MacQuarrie was writing from the stunned community within hours. When a Swissair jet crashed in Nova Scotia in 1998, killing 229 people, MacQuarrie flew to Bangor, rented a car and drove the rest of the night to Halifax.
He worked all that day, filing stories that night for the Globe.
“I think it’s prepared me to go …