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Mention the Boston Police Department and the entire campus will erupt in outrage. Talk about how a last-minute call at Princeton sullied the Crimson’s chances at an Ivy title and you fall on deaf ears...
...tragedy of this new group of films lies not in the main characters, but in our own lives. These movies cast human flaws as destined to erupt tragically regardless of the leader and insinuate that we can only wait for the time when their actions have instigated more harm than their charm can support...
Take a look, if you can stand it, at video footage of the World Trade Center collapsing. Your eye will naturally jump to the top of the screen, where huge fountains of dark debris erupt out of the falling towers. But fight your natural instincts. Look farther down, at the stories that haven't collapsed...
...Libeskind won the competition to design the master plan for the World Trade Center site. For the next year or two, he was so pervasive a media presence--the black glasses, the Polish accent, the inexhaustible cheer--that you half expected a spiky Libeskind tower to erupt soon on every street corner. Then the Trade Center project got away from him. The New York City developer who held the lease on the Twin Towers brought in his own architect to "collaborate" on the centerpiece Freedom Tower. Libeskind, who was a canny enough player to have ushered a Jewish Museum into...
...Another prediction that Bombay defied was that it would erupt in riots. It didn't, because Bombay learned an important lesson after the last riots in 1993: they are bad for business. And, as in the rest of India, business in Bombay is booming, because the political foundations for a truly democratic, composite culture have been laid. The fact that the Prime Minister, who gave wings to the golden songbird, wears a turban is proof of this. This country is 82% Hindu, but it's led by a Sikh Prime Minister, a Muslim President and an Italian Catholic woman...