Loved, hated [HATED?], [WTC's] profile was towering

Baltimore Red Sun ^ | 9/12/01 | Arthur Hirsch

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At 10:29 a.m. yesterday, Manhattan's skyline effectively collapsed back in time 30 years. The twin towers of the World Trade Center, the dominant symbol of New York, if not world capitalism itself, were somehow simply gone.

One could always argue about whether the buildings were the tallest in the world -- without their broadcasting antennas they were not; with the antennas they were -- but it seemed beyond dispute that the 110-story towers together loomed largest in the psyche of New York. Who, after all, can form a mental image of the world's tallest building, the Petronas Towers in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia?

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I don't think Mr. Hirsch cares for skyscrapers. BTW I was in the lobby of one of the towers but was never up either one. Last year, though, I went up to the 86th floor of the ESB (the 102nd floor deck was closed due to rain damage).

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