Word: manhattanization
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...once vast differences did not matter anymore. (The attack even brought a reconciliation between Gore and Bill Clinton. The two sat up till dawn talking about it at Clinton's New York home before sharing a military transport plane to D.C.) Bush then traveled to ground zero in downtown Manhattan. He picked up a bullhorn, slung his arm around one rescue worker and spoke to the others--and to the world--with a grace that was both convincing and, somehow, unmistakably American. "The people who knocked down these buildings," he said, "are going to hear all of us soon...
...Dawn Lee. I work in lower Manhattan and witnessed the attack on the World Trade Center (WTC) last week. As you read this account of the coincidences that let me escape unscathed, I urge you to think of the victims who are not so lucky, and who are not alive to tell their stories today...
...retrospect, I should have taken the train all the way out of Manhattan. Instead, I got off at the next stop, wanting to see if there had just been a joke after all. I also thought that it would be dangerous to be underground if something did explode and the buildings were to collapse on the underground subway system...
...decided not to go back. There were rumors that being close to the water was unsafe, and my apartment was right on the Hudson River. We were also told that all transportation but a few ferries had been shut down, so I wanted to catch the ferries out of Manhattan while I could...
...took the ferry to Hoboken, N.J., where I boarded an Amtrak train north to Boston. As the ferry started across the water, we saw lower Manhattan for the first time since we had run from it that morning. We were horrified at the destruction, but I was also relieved to see the American Express building still standing...