I FELT LIKE I WAS TRAPPED IN ONE OF THOSE TERRIFYING nightmares, the one where youhave to run, run till your lungs burst, but you can't make your body move fast enough. My legs seemed tomove slower and slower as I fought my way through the callous crowd, but the hands on the huge clocktower didn't slow. With relentless, uncaring force, they turned inexorably toward the end—the end ofeverything.