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There was never any possibility of covering up the major industrial accident that rocked the Jilin Petrochemical Company last month. The 50-year-old facility, built with Soviet technology, is China's showcase chemical complex, alma mater to the country's top chemical engineers. On the afternoon of Nov. 13, pressure built up in a 40-m tower at plant No. 101, where nitric acid and benzene are combined to make nitrobenzene, a highly toxic liquid. Technicians tried to relieve the pressure but failed, and the column exploded, killing five workers and injuring 70 others. Five more explosions followed...
...they will never give one dime to Harvard after they leave because of these overreactions.Hand-wringing and reactionary maneuvers are not the solution to college drinking. If Harvard wants to maintain the reputation it has had for three and a half centuries, it needs to cultivate love of alma mater in its students, not pander to the whims of media outlets and cave to the fears of alarmists.Let’s leave that kind of nonsense to Yale. Andrew Kreicher ’06 is a biology concentrator in Leverett House. His column appears on alternate Fridays...
Offsay agrees that beating Farrar’s alma mater, and the team’s biggest Ivy rival, was the best part of the season...
...world-renowned dancers and choreographers Douglas Dunn, Jennifer Monson, and Yoshiko Chuma. On October 2nd, Yamaguchi had the honor of seeing “7x7x7x7x7” debut at New York’s City Center. However, Yamaguchi continues to perform and work at the campus of his alma mater, returning to Cambridge as recently as last week As part of the “Forte!” dance festival, he performed a solo piece entitled “Self-Portrait” at Sanders Theatre on October 25th, and on Halloween, he showcased a handful of selected dances...
...little surprising, given Fingleton’s boyhood. The grim realities of his youth—riddled with alcoholism and poverty—belie the enormous list of accomplishments he has acquired in adulthood: author, screenwriter, film producer, former champion swimmer, and graduate of our own dear alma mater. Consider the trajectory of Fingleton’s life and meaning is restored to the cliché title of his autobiography and its 2003 film adaptation, “Swimming Upstream...