Tragedy vaulted him to control after a hijacked plane crashed into Alger's offices on the 93rd floor of the World Trade Center's north tower, killing Fred Alger's brother David, then in charge of the firm, along with most of the staff.

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Mominur Rahman, a 27-year-old garment worker, fractured his spine jumping for his life from the third floor of the Tazreen Fashions factory outside Dhaka, which burnt down in November, killing over 100 people.

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