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[Laurence Horn]

At 8:13 PM -0700 1/14/02, Nancy Elliott wrote:
>I believe it was David Dinkins who said NYC was a "gorgeous mosaic."
>
Of course!  That was the modifier--and the source--I kept trying to
think of yesterday.  And the metaphor is still very much alive for
its originator:

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DAVID N. DINKINS: Our Town
The Christian Science Monitor

NEW YORK (September 28, 2001 8:21 a.m. EDT) - As the World Trade
Center collapsed, the gorgeous mosaic that is New York City cracked
but did not crumble...