Terror hits home

NEW YORK - In the most devastating terrorist onslaught ever waged against the United States, knife-wielding hijackers crashed two airliners into the World Trade Center yesterday, toppling its twin 110-story towers. The deadly calamity was witnessed on televisions across the world as another plane slammed into the Pentagon, and a fourth crashed outside Pittsburgh.

"Today, our nation saw evil," President Bush said in an address to the nation last night. He said thousands of lives were "suddenly ended by evil, despicable acts of terror."

Said Adm. Robert J. Natter, commander of the U.S. Atlantic Fleet: "We have been attacked like we haven't since Pearl Harbor."

Associated Press

Smoke, flames and debris erupts from one of the World Trade Center towers as a plane strikes it yesterday. The first tower was already burning following a terror attack minutes earlier. Terrorists crashed planes into the two buildings and collapsed both towers.

Campus mourns tragedy

More than 1,000 members of the campus community gathered on the UA Mall yesterday afternoon in an attempt to begin making sense of the largest terrorist attack in U.S. history.

Terrorists crashed three hijacked commercial aircrafts yesterday morning into New York City's World Trade Center and destroyed a section of the U.S. Pentagon in Washington, D.C. A fourth hijacked plane later crashed near an airport outside Pittsburgh.

By the time the "community meeting" started at noon, most people on campus had heard of the devastation. Though the forum was unannounced, it managed to draw in students and staff as well as religious and academic leaders.

Baseball cancels all 15 games

MILWAUKEE - Baseball commissioner Bud Selig and his wife were in New York last Thursday night, and decided to take a drive through the city after dinner.

"We went to the World Trade Center because I hadn't been there in a while. Now to believe that they don't exist anymore," a stunned Selig said yesterday, slowly shaking his head. "It's beyond human comprehension. There is nothing in any of our backgrounds to even begin to prepare you for this."

With the start of the playoffs only three weeks away, baseball became little more than an afterthought yesterday after terrorist attacks in New York and Washington.

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Pain hits home for UA alumna

I went to the eye doctor yesterday. On the subway into Manhattan (I live in Queens) they announced delays in train service. They announced that E trains were not running below Canal Street because a plane had run into the World Trade Center. It's not your typical subway announcement, but I just thought that some moron had flown his tiny plane into the antenna or something. After all, not long ago somebody ran into the Statue of Liberty.

The TV was on in the optometrist's waiting room with the image of the smoking towers.

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Despite grounding circumstances, The Black Crowes plan to rock Centennial tonight

Tickets are still available for the Black Crowes' surprise return to Tucson tonight.

In the wake of yesterday's large-scale terrorist attacks on the United States, bands such as G. Love and Special Sauce, which were scheduled to play Tucson last night, postponed or cancelled their shows.

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