Word: manhattanization
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Akana describes himself as one of the lucky ones, having been able to offer his services to the rescue effort. Others, like David Huyssen and Manhattan native Jordan R. Berkow 03, who went to New York with the anticipation of helping out, understand why volunteers are being turned away. There was just nothing I could do. If I could, Id go and lift rubble and pick up debris, but they just dont need anyone, says Berkow...
...Averill Harriman and George Marshall reoriented the federal government around the idea of defeating communism. They succeeded, of course; Stalin?s nuclear weapons and takeover of Eastern Europe combined with Mao?s triumph and war in Korea had a way of focusing the mind. Perhaps the attack on Manhattan will do the same...
...week has passed since the most destructive attack in American history. In that week, only four percent of the rubble has been cleared from lower Manhattan. Meanwhile, one hundred percent of the reality that may have existed among Harvard students has been demolished. According to “Finding a Lasting Peace,” Heather B. Long ’03 is more captivated with the search for an emotional understanding of terrorism than with the effort to prevent terrorist acts in the future (Op-Ed, Sept...
...Averill Harriman and George Marshall reoriented the federal government around the idea of defeating communism. They succeeded, of course; Stalin?s nuclear weapons and takeover of Eastern Europe combined with Mao?s triumph and war in Korea had a way of focusing the mind. Perhaps the attack on Manhattan will do the same...
...those who survived the First World War nostalgically recalled the vanished era before Europe plunged into blood and darkness. Perhaps I will come to regard my own 2001 summer—spent, like the summers of so many Harvard students, amid the topless towers and teeming streets of Manhattan Island—as a fleeting glimpse of a golden age, a vision of Babylon before the judgment of the Lord came upon...