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...Fifteen seconds." From the sky, a great, arrow-shaped missile appeared, zeroing in on its target a hundred yards away and sounding like a car decelerating in high gear. The spotters lay flat. Alliance commanders and soldiers crouched against the door leading to the roof. The missile hit at 4:05 p.m. For a split second, as the concussive sound waves radiated outward, lungs emptied. Shrapnel whistled by. Then Alliance soldiers burst into applause. A U.S. soldier picked up a fallen piece of metal. "Souvenir," he said, grinning. Six more strikes followed before the British SAS commander re-established contact...
...people watched Nick, and he expects that his fifteen minutes of fame will help him get a job as an army lawyer. “At least it gives us something to talk about in the interview...
...genius," maestro George Szell reportedly said about the eccentric Canadian pianist Glenn Gould. The quote describes comix artist Chris Ware as well. Author of last year's critically-acclaimed graphic novel, "Jimmy Corrigan: Smartest Kid on Earth," Ware has finally come out with issue fifteen in his comicbook series "The Acme Novelty Library." After a year and a half of waiting, rest assured that his reputation(s) remain intact...
FMand maybe all of us at Harvardonce believed that in the future we would all be famous for fifteen minutes. But for many Harvard graduates living and working in New York, and many students in the Class of 2002, the question has become just how distant those fifteen minutes might loom. In a year when the economy has plummeted and the whole country has been affected by terrorist attacks, Harvard students in their ivory tower have not remained immune. For students like Gwen are not alone. She says many students in her own firm have been demoted to secretarial positions...
...World Trade Center). Squeezing between police cars and roadblocks, I soon turned around, mostly because the smell––an acrid, chemical smell-had settled permanently in the air. Making a slow turn onto my street, I looked up, and for the first time in the fifteen years that I have been looking up, the view had irrevocably, permanently changed. My eye struggled to fill in the blank behind the yellow church and the Customs House, mostly because my vision of the towers had already begun to fade. Partly because they were so familiar that I never...