Word: horizons
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...LOOK REMARKABLY LIKE GREAT TOWERING thunderheads, billowing high into the evening sky as they catch the last rays of the setting sun. They are so sharp, so startlingly three dimensional, that the mind wants to domesticate them, to bring them down to earth, to imagine them rising on the horizon or just beyond the wings of an airliner. These are no ordinary clouds, however. They stand not 30,000 ft. but almost 6 trillion miles high. They are illuminated not with ordinary earthly light but with searing ultraviolet radiation spewing from nuclear fires at the center of a handful...
Other changes that are on the horizon include an attempt to be more open with the school community...
...setting and rules intended to shorten the matches, the event has been designed to reach those of us who still call knights "horsies." Until recently, says P.C.A. commissioner Robert Rice, chess was "a medieval game supported in medieval fashion." Now, quite literally, it has been given a whole new horizon...
...familiar scenario for Harvard--it destroyed an inferior team. From a cynical perspective, the Crimson's schedule so far has been the equivalent of taking four Gen Eds, and there's a pre-med track on the horizon...
...that the murders of Nicole Brown Simpson and Ronald Goldman are more than a year old, now that the O.J. Simpson trial has brought the jurors to the edge of exhaustion, and now, especially, that the end of the trial glimmers on the horizon like some incredible mirage, one might expect the lawyers to simmer down and get on with it. But last week a series of procedural wrangles, surprise rulings and endless bickering proved once again that conventional wisdom never applies in this epic case...