‘Closure’: Americans find comfort in clear ending

To surf Amer­i­can air­waves, to read Amer­i­can com­ments on the Inter­net by the thou­sands, to walk Amer­i­can streets on the day after Osama bin Laden’s aston­ish­ing demise meant you’d almost cer­tainly hear some vari­a­tion of a sin­gle telling word: “closure.”