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...responsibility for a lot of people. Lutnick, 40, is CEO of the bond-trading firm Cantor Fitzgerald, which appears to have lost as many as 700 of its 1,000 Trade Center employees, those who were at work last Tuesday between the 101st and 105th floors of the north tower--just 10 floors above where the hijacked jet plowed in and exploded...
...north tower's workers began streaming out of stairwells and into the streets, Lutnick asked which floors they had come from. "And someone would say, '55,'" he recalled. The number kept rising, along with his hopes. What Lutnick didn't know was that the inferno below his employees had sealed off all avenues of escape. A group of them were gathered around a speakerphone talking to colleagues in the U.S. and overseas when the jet struck. Chaos erupted, and the line went dead. Other workers, including Lutnick's younger brother Gary, phoned their families to tell them goodbye...
...anomaly in the global embrace of the faith. The leaders of Islamic America describe such reasoning as worse than a minority opinion--in fact, a kind of perversion. Sheik Taha Jabir Alalwani, president of the Graduate School of Islamic and Social Sciences, has this to say of the Twin Tower terrorists: "If they claim they are Muslim, I would say they...
With just one subject for the front of every paper in the nation, photographers struggled to find a unique shot—any angle that was dramatic and different. The New York Times ran a photo of a man captured in a frame jumping from the burning tower. No captions necessary; the Times had won, with a different photograph that captured the enormity of the tragedy and set the paper apart from every other front page published in America...
...Nuclear Weapons More than 25 years ago, in an eerie foreshadowing of the World Trade Center attack, the writer John McPhee explored with nuclear physicist Ted Taylor the question of how you could topple the Twin Towers with a small atomic bomb. Positioned correctly, McPhee reported, a nuke a tenth as powerful as Hiroshima's could knock a tower into the Hudson River...