"Back to business as usual" was the rallying cry taken up by New Yorkers a year ago, after terrorists destroyed the World Trade Centre. Remarkably, a sort of normality has returned to the city. The first few months after the attack were dreadful, but the new year brought new hope, tourists and businessmen started to return, the hotels and Broadway shows began to fill up. This summer, the city's economy has reportedly resumed growth after a deep recession. Even so, it would be wrong to conclude that life has returned to normal. New York is not over the terrorist attacks yet, and may never be. It remains consumed with grief for the thousands of lives lost, remembered this week in countless services throughout the city-big and small, private and public. The most moving was the reading of the names of each murdered individual, which came just after one minute's silence was observed at 8.46am on September nth, the exact anniversary of the first plane hitting the first tower. Can New York ever have been so quiet?
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