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...From coast to coast, Americans experienced things for which they were quite unprepared. State troopers patrolled airports. "It was like traveling through a combat zone," said Marcia Brier, from Needham, Mass., of a trip from Boston's Logan Airport. At Reagan National Airport in Washington, the gleaming, airy terminal that opened in 1997 remained closed. A tanker carrying 33 million gallons of liquefied natural gas was diverted from highly populated Boston Harbor to Louisiana, just as a precaution. In Idaho and Maryland, there were panicky rumors of missing crop dusters. The Los Angeles subway was shut down for the first...
...drugs on the market. Eventually, David gave up his position at Akamai in order to devote all his energy to his innovative plan. “I was working 24 hours a day on this, working with lawyers, writing the patents, making trips to New York and the West Coast,” David said. The idea, which he designed with Alec Machiels, a Harvard Business School student, won the 2001 Harvard Business School Business Plan contest, allowing the start-up of the company. Today, Potentia focuses on appealing to venture capitalists while David spends around 45 hours a week...
...that which they had raged against, though they promised, in the words of Jay-Z, “Make my money now / and then back to the streets.” Eminem, despite his Caucasian ethnicity and his mid-West origins, was able to assimilate into the West Coast contingency through his alignment with the legendary Dr. Dre. This young rapper epitomized both the acknowledgement of pop culture with such epic verses as, “Sit me here next to Brittany Spears, shit, Christina Aguillera better switch me chairs, so I can sit next to Carson Daly and Fred...
...post-modern gloom of 20th-century America arose the constructed angst of a group of young urban lyricists. Hailing from the East Coast communities of Crooklyn, Mo’ Money Manhattan, the Boogie-Down Bronx and Illidelphia, or from across the wheated plains in the West Coast’s LBC, Compton and El Barrio, these poets raged with urban fury against “the man,” “the money,” “playa hatas” and “baby mamas.” The martyred poet Biggie Smalls...
...tough weekend for the Crimson, but what was clear by the end was that nothing is set in stone for the East Coast Championship this year. The University of Massachusetts squad, who defeated the Crimson earlier this season, lost to Princeton this weekend, while Princeton lost to Harvard. There are several teams, including Harvard, that are in the running for the Eastern title. The Crimson will next compete at MIT on Wednesday night...