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National reaction to the events of September 11 showed that New York maintains its indisputable dominance as cultural capital of the United States. Americans in all corners of the continent, though sometimes grumbling over the arrogance of New Yorkers, still look to the Big Apple as our country's main town. But the stunning resilience of our civilization in the wake of Terrorist Tuesday highlighted another under-appreciated facet of our culture--its true strength derives not from its concentration in one great center, but its dispersion across a wide variety of regional capitals of startling vitality. Our artistic strength is spread across the entire nation, just like our ...