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| | The New Yorker: PRINTABLES (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13) |
 | | Last Wednesday, a resilient commitment to commerce was demonstrated by the management of New York-New York, even as the horrible reconfiguring of the real New York skyline, in accordance with its desert simulacrum, was memorialized. |
 | | This spot has, during the past year, become an unofficial memorial to the events that befell the real New York, New York: T-shirts from fire departments across the country have been hung over the harbor railings, many bearing handwritten messages of sympathy. |
 | | Steve Ray, a retired firefighter from Alabama, said, "Those boys in New York, they had a bad shift." Janie Ray, his wife, clutched a plastic cup filled with tokens to her chest and looked on sadly. |
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