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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...high ground. Trains didn?t run on time. But the forces of nature were nothing compared to the gale force of the media. This was a dress rehearsal for the apocalypse, and the stand-up men in their slickers and earpieces lasted far longer ? and shouted louder ? than Floyd ever...
...this day of ocean-spanning satellite cameras, the viewing public is warned earlier ?- and titillated more meticulously ? than ever before. Like voyagers to Kong Island, we heard the slow, ominous drumbeat long before we glimpsed the beast. Eye-popping computer models, resplendent in oranges and greens, swirled on television screens; mass-market CNN and cultish Weather Channel competed for wide eyeballs with nonstop coverage. On September 11, CNN.com could already trumpet the coming of Floyd "picking up steam," though it was still in its Category 2 infancy, crawling at 10 mph, and hundreds of miles from the Florida Coast...
...Harvard name] did provide some level of legitimation for taking the risk the institutions were taking," he says. "Nothing ever felt easy, but looking back on it, we were 25- or 26- year-olds looking to raise $200,000 for a pilot...
...contact with the students--it was the part of the Harvard job that I liked the most," Miller said. "Harvard gives people a sense of what's possible in their lives more than most places I've ever seen. When you see what happens to people over a long period of time, it's very gratifying...
Last year, the Harvard football team, fresh off one of its best seasons ever, marched into Columbia on top of the world...