Word: column
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...Rather than making allowances for its disabled owner, each floor is really complete only when he's there. Abled people are inconvenienced for him. But this is more than just a house Christopher Reeve could use. The top floor is a concrete box that hangs implausibly over the column-free middle floor, as if two halves of an Eskimo Pie were held apart by nothing. The box is supported by a huge spiral-stair-filled column outside and anchored on one side by a vestigial-looking tendon that plunges into the ground. On the middle story, floor-to-ceiling windows...
Geoffrey C. Upton '99 is a social studies concentrator in Leverett House. His column appears on alternate Wednesdays...
...polls are to be believed, the American public says the President should not be impeached. Now you can add Wall Street to the anti-impeachment column. "The market hates uncertainty," says TIME economics reporter Bernard Baumohl. "And anything as grave as an impeachment can be expected to usher in a period of volatility for stocks...
...immoral or not, but the discussion has to take place. Morality certainly has a place in public discourse; simply to ignore private behavior and to say that it is personal, and thus beyond reproach, is destructive and undemocratic. Sujit Raman '00 is a history concentrator in Mather House. His column appears on alternate Tuesdays...
...camouflaged in its habitat. Everywhere is a sign of life and death. We pass gaping holes in the earth that giant armadillos call home, and the shell of an armadillo that a jaguar called lunch. A microteiid lizard shoots along a palm leaf lying close to where a column of golden ants marches across our trail...