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...into a corner of the building and exploded. Some 200 yds. away, Hussain Ali, who runs a soft-drink stand, dived to the floor as pieces of concrete came flying toward him. Inside the building, Mohammed al-Hakim, a driver with the International Monetary Fund, was standing in a second-floor office. "Everything seemed to be collapsing around me," al-Hakim says. "There was smoke everywhere. I saw a man lying with a bar of metal through his cheek...
...thus it was that Jefferson had the glorious honor of composing, on a little lap desk he had designed, some of the most famous phrases in history while sitting alone in a second-floor room of a home on Market Street in Philadelphia just a block from Franklin's house. "When in the course of human events ..." he famously began. Significantly, what followed was an attack not on the British government (i.e., the ministers) but on the British state incarnate (i.e., the King). "To attack the King was," as historian Pauline Maier notes, "a constitutional form...
...fact, for roommate Adam J. Hornstine ’03, a moment in freshman week captures who Krish has been throughout college. The second-floor Greenough gang had gone to dinner at Annenberg...
...more exciting until a package arrived from Willie Nelson. Along with a note saying "Stand your ground," he sent red bandannas, T shirts and--sources tell TIME--Willie Nelson whiskey. The Dems then broke into a campfire-style sing-along of Merle Haggard's Okie from Muskogee from a second-floor balcony. A good time was had by all. At a press briefing that evening, legislator Jim McReynolds said, "We have not heard from Governor [Rick] Perry or Speaker [Tom] Craddick, but we have heard from the most powerful Texan of all, Willie Nelson...
Walking from the Fogg along Quincy Street, look left at the narrow vertical windows along the curved bay of the second-floor sculpture studio. These windows are called ondulatoires, and have an almost religious feel to them; Le Corbusier used them in a monastery near Lyon, France. Standing at the top of the ramp, look up at the brises soleils, angled baffles intended to obscure direct sun while admitting natural light into the building. Le Corbusier was extremely concerned with the path of the sun and studied its angles at different times of day to great length. As a result...