As Mark Purdy cruises down the 110 Freeway, he can't help but cast a neck-wrenching gaze up to the hazy summer skies in search of that beacon that stands heads and shoulders above the Downtown skyline ...

For six years, Downtown's tallest building has been free from the corporate insignias that grace the tops of other office towers on the skyline. Next month, however, the US Bank logo will be splashed ...

Finger pointing aside, it sounds like President Bush's morning disclosure of more details about the four-year-old Al Qaeda plot to bomb Library Tower (he called it 'Liberty Tower') did catch people ...