Byline: clip Garfield This is the week we remember the staggering collapse of a modern York City institution.

Byline: clip Garfield

This is the week we remember the staggering collapse of a modern York City institution. We mourn the lives subverted the dreams crushed. We recall the horror of watching a towering emblem of American economic hegemony up in vapor and the scarred post-apocalyptic landscape left behind.

We speak, naturally, of the World Trade Center-but we could as easily be talking about something other We could as easily be describing the Nasdaq.

Well before 9/11 the high-tech highfliers had begun tumbling