September 18: bin Laden Wanted Dead or Alive

City Officials Plan Recovery; Political Sniping Heats Up

City Hall reopened yesterday, with the mayor and City Council speaker working on a Marshall Plan-like proposal to help the city quickly recover from the World Trade Center attack.

Rudy: I Thought I Might Die

Mayor Rudolph Giuliani, who has received praise from all corners for his steady presence and leadership during the city's calamity, last night said he thought he might die during the attack on the World Trade Center.

To His Family, a Gentle, Jovial Firefighter

Firefighter Henry A. Miller Jr. had a lot to look forward to in his life. A longtime Massapequa resident and cancer survivor, he was to celebrate his 53rd birthday and seventh wedding anniversary with relatives and friends next month. After 28 years of service with downtown Brooklyn's Ladder 105, Miller was also considering retirement two years from now, finally yielding to repeated requests from his concerned wife.

He Died Rescuing 'Josephine'

Laura Desperito is desperately searching for a Josephine who survived the World Trade Center disaster. She doesn't know who Josephine is-or even her last name. But she wants to find out.

For Two 'Buddies,' the Ultimate Act of Friendship

For 31 years, Diane Urban and Dianne Gladstone were close friends as well as co-workers. For the past three years, they worked for New York State on the 86th floor of Tower Two. Last Tuesday, one of them tried to save the other.

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The Lost

THEY WERE the doers, the movers, the strivers. These were not people who let the world pass them by. They grabbed life and embraced those around them with it.

For Now, Home Is Not So Sweet

David McCallen looked forward to returning to his eighth-floor apartment yesterday, mainly to pick up his bicycle and a few odds and ends.

Bush Praises Levy for Efforts

President George W. Bush yesterday congratulated Schools Chancellor Harold Levy on keeping schools open through the World Trade Center disaster, because, he said, Levy proved that the nation's "most important domestic priority" - education - could not be halted.

State Increases Penalties On Terrorists, Bomb Threats

Albany - The State Legislature dramatically ratcheted up punishments against terrorists and their accomplices yesterday, despite misgivings that some of the measures might be superfluous and too broad in how they defined crimes against the state.

Directors Of Funeral Homes Help ID Victims

Tom Kearns spent Sunday on the telephone, calling one family after another, painfully asking each one for details of relatives who had disappeared into thin air.

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Saving Lives and Keeping Hope

As children, Tommy and Peter Langone grew up in a world where dealing with danger was a family tradition. It made sense that Tommy wanted to be a firefighter and Peter wanted to be a cop.

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A Man Who Was Proud to Work on the 91st Floor

When his employer started moving its offices to southern New Jersey, Frederick Kuo Jr. asked to keep his office on the 91st floor of Two World Trade Center.

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Officers' Friends, Families Still Hoping And Still Searching

After the second plane hit the World Trade Center, Mitchel Wallace called his fiancee. The sound of the sirens in the background was deafening. Over the din, he shouted that there had been a terrible accident. She screamed at him that it was no accident, that it was a terrorist attack and urged him to get out of there.

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Firefighter's Toddler Is Asking, 'Where's Daddy?'

Bill Kennedy remembers the time, decades ago, when a roof collapsed on him while he was fighting a fire in Brooklyn.

Landfill Site of Search for Evidence

An American flag dangles from a red-painted crane at the heavily guarded entrance to the Fresh Kills Landfill in Staten Island. This giant dump is now a fortress set up for the more than 1 million tons of debris that once was the World Trade Center.

It's Back to Business for New Yorkers

For the first time since terrorists toppled the Twin Towers of the World Trade Center, Wall Street returned to work yesterday, and while the market faltered - the Dow lost nearly 685 points - the mood on the trading floor and around town was upbeat and the outlook for the city optimistic.

Les Payne: What's Left Is Too Much To Take In

The Pile is the great unifier.

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Ray Sanchez: Daily Routine That Wasn't

New Yorkers pouring out of subway stations in Manhattan's financial district yesterday all seemed to look up at the vast, hazy emptiness in the blue sky.

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Dennis Duggan: "Those Boys Were His Twin Towers"

'I THINK they're alive and fighting with one another like they did when they were growing up," retired Fire Capt. John Vigiano told me yesterday. "I can just hear John telling his younger brother Joe, 'Now listen to me, I know the way out of here better than you do.'"

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Issuing Death Certificates for the Missing

In the morgues of New York City, in legal circles and in government, officials have begun discussing a process over the last several days that would allow death certificates to be issued where no body has been recovered.

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New York City Firefighters Missing at Trade Center

The following is a list of New York City firefighters missing since the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks on the World Trade Center. Included with each name is the borough each was assigned to, the division and the battalion. SO stands for Special Operations.

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Scrambling to Safety Was a Gamble

Life and death might have been as simple as running in a particular direction when the World Trade Center towers collapsed after the terrorist attack last Tuesday.

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Confirmed Fatalities

In addition to names previously reported, the New York City Medical Examiner's Office yesterday released the following list of people who died in the World Trade Center disaster.

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A Somber Sight at End of Ferry Ride

Following Walt Whitman's wake, ferry service from Brooklyn resumed yesterday for the first time in 13 years.

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Preparing to Report

As the U.S. government plans its retaliation for the terrorist attack on American soil, a small army of media is getting ready to cover the expected military action in Central Asia.

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Ellis Henican: One Miracle Short on Wall Street

It was going to be a "patriot's rally."

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Where to Find Info, How to Help

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NY Muslim Women Taking Precautions

They are a sisterhood of women cloaked in the symbols of their faith - head scarves and modest clothes that drape from neck to ankle known as hijab.

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Attacks Spur Interest In Joining the Military

Sgt. Ishmoile Mohammed of the National Guard recruitment office at the Lexington Avenue Armory has not taken a break all day.

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Injured Survivor Has a Healing Art

Tina Camin hobbled her way across 57th Street in Manhattan yesterday afternoon on crutches, her left leg - broken during last Tuesday's terrorist attack - covered with stars and stripes, flight numbers of the hijacked planes and other significant details of Sept. 11, 2001.

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Aftershocks of the Attack

A week after the World Trade Center disaster, New Yorkers continued to feel its ripples in threatening and heart-wrenching events.

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'It's a Horror to Know'

Covered in the white ash that was once the World Trade Center, police officers spoke for the first time yesterday about their search for those missing - including 23 of their brethren - since terrorists crashed planes into the Twin Towers last Tuesday.

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Zero and Counting

In the grand space of what was long ago a bank, and not so long ago a health club, there are rows of dusty, unused treadmills, elliptical cross-trainers, stair-climbers and weight machines, a reminder of just how much our national mission has changed.