NEW YORK CITY — New York, New York, wonderful town. The Betty Comden/Adolph Green lyrics are a syncopated serenade to the Big Apple. Nobody would write a song like that about Washington. I love my native Washington, but it's still a provincial suburb compared to New York, with neither a Battery nor a Bronx even though we can now "ride in a hole in the ground."

In New York it's the absence of the Twin Towers that haunts its inhabitants. The terrorists of September 11 hit ...

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