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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...everything down in front of a gate that said something such as: "Enter To Grow in Wisdom." A fellow approached and smiled. He wore dark-gray trousers, a tweed jacket, a button-down shirt and a striped...

Author: By Alexander C. Hoagland, CLASS OF 1950 | Title: Veteran Tinge Invades Harvard Yard | 6/5/2000 | See Source »

...picked up the typewriter and the grip and started through the gate. I had expected Harvard kids to be unfriendly, or, let's say, not entirely egalitarian. In fact, I was there that night, because my high school English teacher kept me after classes so that I would write away for the application to Harvard, and kept me again until I filled...

Author: By Alexander C. Hoagland, CLASS OF 1950 | Title: Veteran Tinge Invades Harvard Yard | 6/5/2000 | See Source »

...stand fledgling trees, the "Rescuers' Orchard," and a magnificent "Survivor Tree," for those who lived through the blast and for the act of survival itself. Scorched and stripped of leaves by the bombing, it now shimmers with a rich green. The memorial is framed by two massive bronze entrance gates: the 9:01 Gate and the 9:03 Gate, the lettering done like a digital clock. The minutes signify the times just before and after the explosion. The hour of 9:02 is represented by the chairs...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: How We Remember | 5/29/2000 | See Source »

Jeanine Gist walks through the 9:01 Gate and toward the chair of her daughter Karen. Karen Gist Carr was 32; she and her husband Greg had just celebrated their eighth wedding anniversary and had been trying to have a child. She worked as an advertising assistant in the Army recruiting office, writing promotional brochures. She was killed by a blow to the back of the head. A high school classmate involved in the rescue effort could report to the family that Karen's body was found intact, seated in her chair...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: How We Remember | 5/29/2000 | See Source »

...important to us," says Andrew Seybold, editor of Andrew Seybold's Outlook, a wireless data and mobile computing industry newsletter. You get your e-mail, your instant messages, your stock portfolio. You can use a travel application to find out if your plane is on time and what gate it's leaving from...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Wireless Summer | 5/29/2000 | See Source »

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