Word: metropolitan
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Last week, almost exactly two thousand years later, the temple so built stood beneath a gleaming, towering, glassy pavilion newly erected at the north end of Manhattan's Metropolitan Museum of Art overlooking Central Park. Dendur's ancient stones glow softly orange as it stands on a wide granite platform skirted by a moat of lapping water, designed to evoke its old site on the west bank of the Nile. Even the rocky escarpment against which it stood has been simulated. The huge skylight and glass north wall set off its looming 26-ft.-high gateway and the squat bulk...
...first is the "metropolitan plan," which tries to block white flight by incorporating suburbs under city control, then busing whites back into town to achieve balance. The courts have struck down such plans in Detroit and Richmond. Armor adds another glum note. After studying inconclusive results of the one metropolitan-integration plan tried so far, in Louisville, he says it does not seem to work. Whites, denied escape to near suburbs, move farther away, or flee into private schools. Even in sprawling Los Angeles, where, Armor thinks, some sort of metropolitan plan should be instituted and might work, the chances...
...DIED. Metropolitan Nikodim, 48, Russian Orthodox Archbishop of Leningrad and Novgorod; of a heart attack during an audience with Pope John Paul I; in Vatican City. Consecrated a bishop in 1960 and an archbishop a year later, Nikodim served as a president of the World Council of Churches. Though he refused to criticize Moscow's restrictions on religious freedom, he was respected by other denominational leaders for his ecumenism. Nikodim headed his church's delegation at the accession of the new Pope, who administered his last rites...
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Randy Moir, a project archaeologist at the Peabody Museum's Institute of Conservation Archaeology (ICA), was walking past Harvard Hall last Friday and stopped to explore the trenches dug by Metropolitan Boston Transportation Authority (MBTA) workers. The workers are rerouting pipes to make way for the extension of the Red Line...