From distant memory, at the distance, and perspective of the shots I saw, and in complete accord with what I expected, was a very slight rotation of a few degrees of the top segments, which then slammed into the lower segments, overloading everything successively, but the whole thing basically overall mostly fell straight down

And you have degrees? Man.

You also use the word "magic" and that seems to be what you think was in play on 9/11. The top 34-floor section of WTC2 was falling sideways, then the structure beneath it collapsed, and the top segment REVERSED its angle of momentum. It moved back in toward the center of the building as it began falling and disintegrating. Impossible under normal "no bombs" conditions. Under normal conditions, even if the lower floors had suddenly vanished, the 34-floor block moving sideways should have continued that downward angular motion. Something caused it to defy the laws of physics, so it was either explosives or Tora Boran magic. Take your pick.

The videos on the web clearly show what I just described. Videos shot from various angles and distances. The top segment of WTC2 reverses its direction before disappearing into the cloud of dust.

The NIST report doesn't even talk about the collapses of the buildings. It describes what happens up to the point of "initiation." Didn't even have to refute Newton and all those troublemakers--just reshaped metallury and thermodynamics, then stopped before they had to do the same to hard physics.

A couple of footnotes from the NIST report:

The focus of the Investigation was on the sequence of events from the instant of aircraft impact to the initiation of collapse for each tower. For brevity in this report, this sequence is referred to as the "probable collapse sequence," although it does not actually include the structural behavior of the tower after the conditions for collapse initiation were reached…(NIST, 2005, p. 80, fn. 12; emphasis added.)

The results were a simulation of the structural deterioration of each tower from the time of aircraft impact to the time at which the building became unstable, i.e., was poised for collapse. …(NIST, 2005, p. 142.)

The violation of the angular thing, and the free-fall speed thing are impossible to explain unless bombs were involved, so the government just didn't address the actual falls of the buildings.