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...about the time that the shooting stopped at Leonardo da Vinci, three men in dirty pants and combat jackets ran up the steps to the second-floor departure area at Vienna's Schwechat Airport. They opened fire with AK-47s. Passengers waiting to check in for E1 A1 Flight 364 to Tel Aviv threw themselves on the floor or leaped over ticket counters in panic. Police and E1 A1 security guards returned the fire, but the terrorists managed to get within 30 ft. of the counter. They rolled three hand grenades across the floor like bowling balls toward their victims...
...climbed spiral staircases; we poked into the back of stacks, tipping books from the shelves at random in the hope of opening doors to secret passages. We pretended to shut each other in the vault in the basement of the Kirkland library. We passed the rum in the second-floor stacks of the Eliot library. By the time we returned to Winthrop, tired and damp from the driving rain, I was both glad to have gone on the tour and glad to be done with it. The libraries had their charmsthe spiral staircases in the stacks, the housemasters smiling down...
Late in the afternoon of Dec. 28, Viktor Yushchenko was working on a speech in his small second-floor office at the headquarters of his party, Our Ukraine. He had plenty to feel good about: he'd survived an assassination attempt and a plot to steal Ukraine's presidency away from him, and he was finally President-elect - the results were in from the Dec. 26 poll, and he had pulled over 2.2 million more votes than his opponent, Prime Minister Viktor Yanukovych. That evening Yushchenko was to address his supporters on "the Maidan," or Maidan Nezalezhnosti, Kiev's Independence...
Sandel, who moderated the discussion in the second-floor Faculty room in University Hall, said that their recommendations would be similar to those made last April by the 54 participants in the first stage of the review in which the working group recommended the replacement of the Core with a set of distributional requirements and foundational, interdisciplinary Harvard College Courses. Unlike today’s Core classes which emphasize “modes of thought,” the proposed Harvard College Courses are more focused on facts the Faculty thinks students should know...
...graduate school student saw an unidentified male outside her window, standing on her second-floor fire escape on Nov. 20, Catalano said. HUPD does not believe this incident, which occurred at the Holden Green, another graduate student housing, is connected to Monday’s incident...