When the bomb detonated at 9:53 p.m. on Friday in Paris, Kevin Lubin didn't think much of it. The 20-year old Millersville University of Pennsylvania student had just moved to France that semester to study economics. That evening, joined by five American friends, he was ticking off one of the essential items on his cultural to-do list: watching his first soccer game at Stade de France, France's national stadium. So when Lubin heard a thunderous boom from behind him – seemingly from outside the stadium – he assumed it was a simply a firecracker; a normal part of the revelry that comes with the closing minutes of a major soccer game. One of Lubin's friends, seated three rows behind him, felt...
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