Word: manhattanization
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...little earlier than usual last Tuesday. My day, perhaps like yours, was shaping up to be pretty busy, so I wanted to get a head start. A little before 8 a.m., I kissed my wife and son goodbye and headed to TIME's offices in midtown Manhattan. By 8:30, I was at my desk, answering e-mails. Shortly before 9 a.m., Steve Koepp, the deputy managing editor, called on his cell phone from downtown. Walking his son to school, he could see that a plane had crashed into the north tower of the World Trade Center...
...have it, TIME's James Carney was one of only 13 reporters traveling on Air Force One with President George Bush when he took off from Florida and secretly flew to a secure military base in Louisiana. Other TIME reporters raced to the World Trade Center and hospitals around Manhattan, while our journalists around the world--from Washington to Kabul, from Los Angeles to Jerusalem--filed reports overnight Tuesday. All this reporting landed on the desk of senior editor Nancy Gibbs, who over the course of dozens of covers has proved that no one is better at capturing a moment...
While my colleagues in New York City scrambled to meet our deadlines, many of us also tried to reach relatives and friends who work in downtown Manhattan. I looked at hundreds of photographs for this issue, and as a native New Yorker whose dad was a New York City policeman for 25 years, I kept coming back to the faces of my fellow New Yorkers who escaped death and the cops and fire fighters who helped them do it, knowing that in the days to come we will see so many pictures of those who did not make...
...humble an empire it makes sense to maim its cathedrals. They are symbols of its faith, and when they crumple and burn, it tells us we are not so powerful and we can't be safe. The Twin Towers of the World Trade Center, planted at the base of Manhattan island with the Statue of Liberty as their sentry, and the Pentagon, a squat, concrete fort on the banks of the Potomac, are the sanctuaries of money and power that our enemies may imagine define us. But that assumes our faith rests on what we can buy and build...
...down and sobbed. All that was left of the New York skyline was a chalk cloud. The towers themselves were reduced to jagged stumps; the atrium lobby arches looked like a bombed out cathedral. "A huge plume of smoke was chasing people, rushing through those winding streets of lower Manhattan," says Charlie Stuard, 37, an Internet consultant who works downtown. "It was chaos, a whiteout. That's when people really started to panic. You could see it coming. A bunch of us jumped over a rail, onto the pilings on the East River, ready to jump...