Word: towered
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...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...
Fernando R. DeLeon ’01 was at a red light on the West Side Highway only a few hundred yards from the north tower when he saw the first plane approaching just seconds before it struck. He said that cars were bumping into each other as drivers took their eyes from the road, and only moments later a police officer had cordoned off the area, trapping cars in the process...
...many witnesses, shocked and confused by the scene in front of them, seeing the second plane flying toward the south tower clarified the situation—this was no accident...
...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...
...brought to near perfection as a dramatic form. Never has the evil business had such production values. Normally, the audience sees only the smoking aftermath - the blown-up embassy, the ruined barracks, the ship with a blackened hole at the waterline. This time the first plane striking the first tower acted as a shill. It alerted the media, brought cameras to the scene so that they might be set up to record the vivid surreal bloom of the second strike ("Am I seeing this?"), and then?could they be such engineering geniuses, so deft at demolition? - the catastrophic collapse...