Word: harbors
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...share food with and to visit on special occasions. Charbel, from Punchbowl, hangs out with the local Muslim boys; sometimes they ask each other questions about their faiths. Those whose parents are immigrants from Lebanon have heard stories of conflict and bloodshed; the younger ones don't seem to harbor grudges on their behalf. Some students had relatives caught up in the recent troubles in Lebanon. Only when questions turn to inter-marriage between Christians and Muslims does the line harden. "That's when the big differences come out," says Charbel. "Personally, I'd find it too difficult to marry...
...sloping room with grandstand-style seating, each tier equipped with computer stations for looking at digital artworks and downloading videos about artists. Suspended at an angle from beneath the long, cantilevered upper story, the room culminates in a window wall that looks down directly onto the surface of Boston Harbor, roughly 40 ft. below. The result is the kind of view you might get by looking down onto the surface of a pool through a diving mask: a horizonless sheet of water that fills the entire rectangle...
...like a giant diving board. The hope is that the stairway will become a gathering spot like the Spanish Steps in Rome. It won't have the advantage of being surrounded by Rome, but unlike the sunbaked and overcrowded Spanish Steps, it will have a sheltering overhang and a harbor view...
...basketball team kept the score close against Fairfield for most of the game on Saturday, but a late Stags run prevented the Crimson from improving on its winless record. Harvard (0-4) fell to Fairfield (2-3) by a score of 73-57 at the Arena at Harbor Yard in Bridgeport, Conn. Neither team could take control of the game in the first half, and the score was tied at 45 at 10:06 in the second frame. Then the Stags found their rhythm on offense, and the visiting Crimson never found its own pace on the road. Fairfield went...
...American commanders say the Iraqi forces are nowhere near ready to take responsibility for security. This seems beyond the grasp of policy makers in Washington, where some legislators continue to demand that more responsibility be handed over to the Iraqis, so U.S. troops can be withdrawn. Few in Baghdad harbor such fantasies. They know that it will be a long time before their forces are up to the job. Until then, they want the Americans around for protection - and to blame...