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For 40 years, there was nothing like it in the history of the world: the Empire State Building. Rising from midtown Manhattan during the bitter dawn of the Great Depression, its 6,500 windows, 10 million bricks and then record 102 stories became an instant urban icon. A movie encounter...
As you enter the gymnasium of the Longfellow Elementary School, the tabulation center for all ballots cast in Tuesday's city election, you encounter people talking about nothing but numbers.
Galina Starovoitova, a top aide to Boris Yeltsin, has reason to fear a second coup. While visiting Edinburgh last month, she had a chance encounter with Alexander Nevzorov the ultra-nationalist Soviet TV journalist. The Yeltsin staffer says that Nevzorov, spewed his contempt for the bumblers who conducted their inept...
Overall, The Miracle of Language is hard to fault. One shortcoming is Lederer's "linguacentricity" (to coin a phrase) as regards the study of language. It is annoying to encounter fatuous comments like "No doubt English was invented in heaven" or to have him assert that the angels speak English...
The student alleged that in the encounter that followed his refusal to show his I.D., the officer pushed him up against the wall, put his finger in his face and threatened him.