Word: horizons
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...Lowell’s successor, James B. Conant ’14, pomp and circumstance was not a priority, with war on the horizon and an upcoming Tercentenary Celebration. Instead, Conant selected the Faculty Room of University Hall for his installation. Only 150 people attended. In retrospect, Conant’s secretary, Jerome Greene, maintained that the famed 1935 Tercentenary Celebration, with its audience of 15,000, was Conant’s true inauguration...
...what of the show indefinitely erased from the New York horizon in the wake of two towering buildings erased from the skyline? Amongst all that has been lost due to the events of Sept. 11, it is easy to overlook Assassins. Yet the absence of this Sondheim musical merits special attention, not only because New York audiences have been deprived of an extraordinany piece of theater, but also because the principal reason for its cancelation is its subject matter...
...United Way has directed much of its contributions to victims' assistance groups and other middlemen, to whom it has so far handed $6 million. The charity says it is forgoing its usual 13% from donations to cover administrative costs. One grant recipient, Safe Horizon, laid out $700,000 last week helping people like an elderly New York couple who by government standards did not qualify as dependents of their missing daughter but could not make an Oct. 1 mortgage payment without her help. Meanwhile, the United Way is developing a strategy to meet such long-term needs as job training...
...destruction of the Buddhas. Russia's Foreign Ministry has even reported that bin Laden was unofficially serving as the Taliban's Defense Minister. Bin Laden has allied himself with the Taliban hard-liners; the moderates--and there are some--would prefer to see him vanish over the desert horizon...
...will be overshadowed by the events of Sept. 11. Near the end of the film, a speedboat races across the Long Island Sound. The sun is sinking into the ocean, the sky bleeds gray and orange, and the towers of the World Trade Center stand tall against the distant horizon. It is a striking shot, one that resonates deeply as the action moves into a dark, silent cemetery. A foreboding haze rises into the night air, the movie falls swiftly away...