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Maybe it's just as well that in those frightening days after Sept. 11 the nation didn't know what was in the CIA's files about terrorist plots to hijack a plane and fly it into the Eiffel Tower. Or about the secret memos that had been rocketing back and forth between intelligence agencies with titles like "Bin Laden Planning High-Profile Attacks" and "Islamic Extremist Learns to Fly." Or that CIA chief George Tenet looked around in the summer of 2001 and saw that "the system was blinking red." Or that the FBI's chief of counterterrorism said...
Today Conlon is cruising the neighborhood for the junkie who brained Big Bird, steering with one hand and juggling multicolored case files with the other, head swiveling constantly to scan the sidewalks. He drops by a project tower to do a "vertical patrol," which means taking the elevator to the roof and trotting down 16 condom-and-crack-vial-strewn flights to the ground. A crowd of teenagers loiters in front of the entrance. "Let's see how many of these guys break when they see us," Conlon says as he gets out of the car. None do, though...
...actually has the muscle to put some mortar behind his message. Take the $2.25 billion, 27-acre Roppongi Hills. The project, which opened 12 months ago, was carved from more than 400 smaller building lots that Mori systematically pieced together over 14 years. It features a 54-story office tower and 793 apartments, integrated with shops, restaurants, parks and gardens...
...brought his camera into an occupied University Hall, the snapshots he took there can be found in magazine archives or a skip-filled CD-ROM. Still, no number of scratches or fading decades can obscure the behind-the-scenes images of the moment the ivory tower became a battleground...
Ideal first date: A sweaty Bell Tower party...