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Derry, N.H., Widow Passes Up Payment, Presses Suit against United for Sept. 11.
Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News, May, 2002
By Thanassis Cambanis, The Boston Globe Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News
May 14--DERRY, N.H.--After her husband's body "rained down over New York City" on Sept. 11, as Ellen Mariani puts it, she didn't want to forget what happened. She placed a back-lit photograph of the World Trade Center Towers at her breakfast table in their now-empty house in downtown Derry, and settled down to the pressing business of finding answers: Why were terrorists able to board United Air Lines Flight 175 at Logan Airport? Had the government ignored years of security warnings? Could better airline regulation have saved Neil Mariani's life?
That's why, resolved as she was to face the reasons for Sept. 11 head-on, the government's offer to pay her $1.85 million in...
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