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...shooting "objects put together bald, like a visual list," Joshi's novel reads more like a photomontage than a narrative. He jump-shifts between the voice of an unidentified narrator and Bhatt; another account comes from diary entries of a young woman smitten with the photographer. These abrupt cuts require careful attention. They also add to Joshi's deeper theme of the complexity of connections in life: particularly, where the relationship between nation and family begins and ends...
...Another incident which worried experts took place in April 1999 and involved the abrupt emergency landing of a Brussels-bound Continental Airlines DC-10 flight which had just taken off from Newark International Airport. The right CF6 engine was seriously damaged when it suffered an uncontained failure. Last September, a US Airways CF6 engine undergoing a maintenance check blew apart and scattered parts across the tarmac and even into a nearby river...
With the assistance of an able crew, director Gregory J. Gagnon ’04 keeps one continually astonished by what is seen. Throughout the show, the sense of being in another world, one utterly beyond comprehension, is skillfully maintained. And though the ending registers as abrupt and unsatisfying, it is faithfully interpreted...
Since Oct. 22, voices from all sides have been asserting opinions on the abrupt resignation of Professor of Economics Caroline M. Hoxby ’88 from the Harvard Committee on Employment and Contracting Policies (HCECP). This has drawn attention away from one strikingly clear fact: the data that has just been released by the presidential advisory committee chaired by Professor of Economics Lawrence F. Katz demonstrates beyond question that labor conditions at Harvard University are bad, and getting worse...
...generals know battle plans are often the first casualties of battle. After weeks of bristling at complaints about the campaign's sluggishness, the Pentagon may have finally concluded that the best way to silence the grumbling is to heed it. Rumsfeld and his generals say there has been no abrupt shift in strategy. "We're in the driver's seat," says Rear Admiral John Stufflebeem. But now the commanders are stepping on the accelerator. As many as 100 commandos are already on Afghan soil and hooking up with Northern Alliance forces. The "forward air controllers" among them call...