Word: heapings
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Although my frustrations with the University administration sometimes lead me to believe that I could do a better job, I could not have led a university on Sept. 11. I could hardly speak, the news was so debilitating: the colossal towers of the World Trade Center lay in a heap of rubble; the Pentagon stood, but with a gaping wound; thousands of innocent people were torn from their friends and family before their time...
...moral imperative of our actions. In his speech before Congress on Sept. 20, he clearly identified the evilness of radical Islamic terrorism by comparing it to fascism and Nazism. Then—just as Reagan predicted the repressive, totalitarian Soviet government was destined for the “ash heap of history”—Bush vowed that murderous terror organizations would end up “in history’s unmarked grave of discarded lies.” He distinctly laid out the moral and practical purposes of our retaliation against these vicious factions...
...stack became a heap, then a small mountain. By Thursday night, the 4-ft. mound of tributes to the fire fighters of Engine 54/Ladder 4 in New York City's Hell's Kitchen--food donations, flowers, cards, American flags and photos of the station's fire fighters missing at the World Trade Center site--had grown so big that a second pile of flowers had to be started alongside the entrance. Captain Richard Parenty found the tributes so gratifying they were almost painful: "It's so good to feel appreciated, and it's draining. Even the outpouring of support...
Last Tuesday, I did not want to think about the political aftermath of the World Trade Center bombings. It was too early. That vivid image of those two colossi collapsing into a heap of flames was etched too firmly in my mind. I could not think of anything except the victims who might be underneath the rubble and their families. My girlfriend lives in New York. Many of my friends work in the World Trade Center and lower Manhattan. As I frantically dialed 212 phone numbers, the rest of the world was a distant afterthought...
...rats, just--well, if there are rats under those junk piles, at least we never see them. Over the last year, this engineering showdown (which airs new episodes starting Sept. 12) quietly became the class of the reality-TV field, turning groups of tinkerers loose on a scrap heap to build cannons, gliders, rockets and the like out of detritus, then pit their improvised creations against each other. With humor and an adorable host (Cathy Rogers, the thinking viewer's Julie Chen)--and without the robo-macho aggressiveness of Comedy Central's BattleBots--Junkyard shows that, sometimes, making smart, escapist...