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...only they could do the same for the rest of us. We are all in the Third Tower now, the one built instantly from the rubble of the other two. We have been "awakened to danger," the President said, have heard the planes and seen the flames and are uncertain about what to do next. We're told to go about our business; we want to head for the stairs. When millions of us all imagine in the same week what we would say in our last cell-phone call to our family and friends, something in our lives...
...date; Tower 2, 54th floor; and her age. She had turned 29 the day before the attack...
...terrorist's lair" of which the local paper has written. The landlord says he and his wife "were shocked" when they heard from the police that the young man who shared their flat was one of the terrorists (Al- Shehhi was on Flight 175, which destroyed the south tower of the World Trade Center). Adds the landlord with a sigh: "I always prided myself on possessing not a little knowledge of character, but I never noticed anything unusual about...
...additional 82 groups have nixed their plans for October. In Las Vegas, only half the city's 125,000 hotel rooms were occupied last week, down from 94% a year ago; Park Place Entertainment announced last week it was postponing the $475 million construction of a hotel tower at Caesars Palace. From New York City to Los Angeles, waiters, travel agents and Broadway actors are all losing work...
...document the effects Harvard has on the world through its graduates, its researchers or as an institution. While the Kellers dont deny that the story of modernization at Harvard is informed by modernization on a national scale, they limit themselves from the start to events inside the ivory tower. In dealing with the turbulence of the late 1960s, for example, the Kellers focus is not on how the activists at Harvard resembled and differed from radicals across the country, but rather on the effects of the turbulence on the governance and character of the institution...