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...accommodate some of the overflow caused by rising admissions of female students, Daniels tower--one of four towers that now make up Currier House--was built in 1966 or 1967, and, according to Graham, "Currier was designed around...
...reason to assume that this trend will not continue. Ostensibly, Harvard pushes its undergraduates to embark on a rigorous search for veritas, thus molding a new generation of men and women fit to run the country. This conception of the Harvard education is not only accepted within this ivory tower; most of America also seems to believe in the Harvard mystique...
...their shelf life. Though no generators have yet been found, pieces of the salvaged wreckage, including a singed cockpit life preserver and two sooty steps from near the cockpit, indicate there was a fire on board the plane. And minutes before the crash, pilot Candalyn Kubeck told the Miami tower the cockpit was filling with smoke. Company president Lewis Jordan, a former head of Continental Airlines, has cautioned against a "rush to judgment," but told TIME late last week that to his knowledge, ValuJet was not authorized to carry the generators. Another possibility being investigated is that a short...
...lesser incidents as momentary loss of engine power, as well as those in which a passenger is injured or killed.) And of the upstart group, ValuJet's rate--3.06 accidents per 100,000 departures, compared with 0.43 for the 14 other low-cost carriers studied--was the second worst (Tower Air was the worst). When asked about this report, Jordan said, "We've had incidents and a tragic accident, and now we are looking forward to a high level of safety...
...nothing else, Babel Tower suggests a reason that not very much thrilling fiction has been written about the workings of education committees. Byatt's interests here are more philological than dramatic. All her various plots underscore the mixed blessings of language, its power to obscure as well as reveal, to enslave as well as liberate. The subject is certainly worthy but not perhaps sufficiently vivid to propel readers through a long, long literary haul. Byatt writes beautifully, and passages of this novel come to brilliant life. But the net effect of the whole, as opposed to the parts, seems...