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...planes hit, the towers burned and in an instant they were gone, reduced to a steel and concrete graveyard. From the wreckage, a cloud of smoke and ash rose ever higher and farther until it erased a vista once anchored by the fallen Twin Towers. Three weeks later, the physical cloud has dissipated, but a metaphoric one remains, and not only in New York City. This cloud hangs heavy across the world, where nonstop diplomacy, ultimatums and the rhetoric of war have redefined priorities, created societal and religious fissures and forced nations to choose sides unequivocally...
Miki-Sophia J. D. Cloud ’04 said she liked the new Board Plus option, though she said the Boylston cafe seemed to be lacking a certain C’est Bon intangible...
...Heightened uncertainty" - another understatement. The cloud of what may or may not happen at home and abroad in the coming weeks/months/years? war on terrorism is still weighing on Wall Street because it is still weighing on businesses, because it is still weighing on consumers. Will shoppers, lured hesitatingly back out to stores of late by patriotism and deep discounts, keep coming out in greater numbers as the winter comes? When they refinance their mortgages, will they spend the extra dough? Or will their confidence collapse under mounting personal debt, deflated portfolios, uncertain job prospects, and well, the whole gas-mask...
...Until today, sitting in the desert heat, feeling the soar and stutter of engine revs rattle through my spine, I wasn't aware of a yearning to bash dunes. But as I stamp the accelerator, slew and slide up a sand hill and fly over the ridge, trailing a cloud of sand to a crunching back-front touchdown, it's all too apparent I missed my calling. I bounce along the ridges at 70 km/h, graffiti-ing the sand left and right with an exuberant four-wheeled scrawl. Leaning in and cresting another ridge, dodging stray camels and shrubs...
...cloud in the silver lining