th violent criminals along with their infection of reality with fantasy provided models for bin Laden's action as well as a global stage on which it would appear and be guaranteed unlimited coverage.  Bin Laden strove for maximum effect with his crime, and he was granted it.  At the time, it seemed that everyone was saying or writing, "Everything has changed."  (I also wrote it, in a column right after the attack.) But in this reaction, felt as defiance of bin Laden, was there not also a kind of surrender -