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| | Asiaweek.com | Black Tuesday | 9/21/2001 |
 | | Though bloodied by terrorism in the past, nothing had ever invoked such a sense of crisis before, the feeling that the entire population was at the mercy, even for a moment, of a nameless, faceless threat. |
 | | As of Tuesday night, conservative estimates said that more than 2,000 had lost their lives in the overall attack. |
 | | The events of Black Tuesday are clearly something far more unsettling for America, a difference in kind as well as degree. |
| www.asiaweek.com /asiaweek/magazine/dateline/0,8782,174698,00.html (3600 words) |
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