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...striking how many of these attacks--real and false--were directed at media companies. Having attacked America's financial and military centers on Sept. 11, the al-Qaeda terror network might well be tempted to hit the nation's media--which manage to embody both freedom and excess. Is al-Qaeda trying to panic U.S. journalists into doing the terrorists' work for them, spreading the fear that has now hit them where they work? Addressing the possibility that the anthrax scare is a follow-up to the attack on the World Trade Center, Vice President Dick Cheney wondered aloud...
...need to buy less if we could learn to accept less upward mobility and slower growth. In the meantime, we'll have to feel our way to being a Better Generation. With the collapse of the World Trade Center, the curtain closed on the decade of wretched excess heralded when Wall Street's Gordon Gekko proclaimed, "Greed is good." When a plea went out on Sept. 12 that the rescue workers needed socks, thousands of pairs flooded ground zero. Word came to send money instead. The money poured in, but the socks kept coming. The task in this new decade...
...celebration of excess. After receiving the College charter, seal and keys from former Mass. Governor John D. Long, Class of 1857, Lowell conferred honorary degrees on scholars from national and international institutions. The Boston Symphony Orchestra performed that night in Sanders Theatre, and the day ended with a firework display that lit up the October night...
...largest single investment Shuttle Services has made in a software product,” Harris explains. “It’s unprecedented.” No one will disclose the exact fee for the contract, but according to Karamchandani, it was in excess of $10,000. That price tag may still be small for stealing the ShuttleGirl icon from the student body, but Harvard thought the image wouldn’t appeal to the entire University community. “Certainly the majority of riders are students, but we offer the service to faculty and staff too. Shuttletime...
...cold and rainy throughout much of the game Saturday, and players slipped all over the field, leading to an excess of fouls. Princeton was called for 16 fouls, while the Crimson committed...