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...fight press conference last January when an enraged Tyson suddenly threw down his hat and, during the ensuing melee, bit Lewis in the thigh. After that, everyone agreed the two men should be kept apart until they crawl into the padded ring at The Pyramid, the 10-year-old downtown arena normally reserved for the city's new professional basketball team...
...that time, the workers kept at it, downing thermoses of coffee and sandwiches proffered by Red Cross volunteers. The workers were at once celebrities, flirted with by the young people who flocked downtown to serve food and set up Internet connections, and totally anonymous, their features shrouded by hardhats or baseball caps slung low over their foreheads. We cheered them on, standing on the shoulder of the West Side Highway, waving our flags and our placards of thanks, but we will never truly understand what they...
...Many New Yorkers are already back in top form, bickering over plans to redevelop the stricken downtown area, complaining about traffic snarls, doing our best to carry on the traditions that make this city work. But the workers at Ground Zero don't have that option - they're stuck in a time warp, reliving that awful day again and again. They make it safe for the rest of us to go downtown and breathe the air and wonder at the cool efficiency of the cleanup effort. "It's amazing," we marvel to ourselves. "It's like a clean slate...
...would have to leave the country to find a place further in spirit from downtown Manhattan than Shanksville, Pa., the rural hamlet where United Airlines Flight 93 crashed on Sept. 11. It is a town with no stoplights or sewers or banks. It's home to just 245 residents--244.5 of them white--who attend three lively churches and are embarrassingly nice to strangers. The closest Starbucks is a two-hour drive...
...Sunday, countless students will board the Delta Shuttle to their I-banking and consulting internships in downtown New York. Others will take on full time research positions in one of Boston’s leading hospitals or biotech firms. Many more will engage in three-month community service projects—domestically and abroad...