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...this March when my rooming group received that fateful envelope, I wouldn't have told you that Cabot was my favorite house on campus. In fact, it was approximately our group's last choice, somewhere between living at home (it might've been closer, for some of us) and underground in the Harvard T station...
...WASN'T SUPPOSED TO HAPPEN HERE. NOT IN America. Not in New York City. But it did. On Friday, just past noon, what is believed to be a car bomb exploded in an underground garage beneath Manhattan's 110-story World Trade Center. The blast and the resulting smoke and fire killed at least five people and injured 1,042. It forced tens of thousands of people to evacuate the buildings. It snarled traffic, stopped train service and knocked TV stations (many had antennas on the roof) off the air. The blast created a 200-ft. by 100-ft. crater...
Because of their trouble getting to the "blast seat" in the dangerously crumbling underground garage, investigators could not even confirm to their complete satisfaction what had caused the explosion. But its size and intense heat suggested a bomb, as did traces of nitrate found at the edges of the blast crater. Until they could determine otherwise, informed experts assumed that hundreds of pounds of high explosives had been packed into a car or van that was left at a four-level underground parking garage. The garage is situated below the Trade Center plaza and near a station of the PATH...
...find now appears to be the dwelling site of the city's rulers; the still buried wall probably marks Troy's true boundaries and might be the very wall that Achilles reputedly chased Hector around three times. Archaeologists intend to excavate the barrier, which lies 6 to 10 ft. underground, this summer. Still missing are any signs of the Trojan horse...
House Masters Jurij and Emanuela Striedter say that Cabot offers many opportunities for students to become involved in house activities. They mention the annual Dutch Auction, the Underground Theatre, the frequent dinner talks with famous speakers and the weekly Coffee Table as examples...