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...large crowd congregated in front of the goalpost nearest the Harvard section of the stadium. Spurred on by cries of “Goalpost! Goalpost!,” the crowd began to push toward the post. A row of about 10 YUPD officers, assembled to prevent damage to the post, stood blocking the crowd’s path...
Memorial Church was dedicated on Nov. 11, 1932, to peace and in memory of the men who died in World War I. A ceremony in commemoration of Harvard’s war dead is traditionally held on the Sunday nearest to Armistice...
...delta into desert in a few decades. The Aral Sea split into two and receded to less than half its size. Rains failed. Without the sea, temperatures became erratic. What water remained was a concentrated cocktail of salt, minerals and pesticide runoff from the cotton fields upstream. Moynaq, the nearest town, watched its livelihood drain away with the parting Aral. The former bustling port used to can 70 million tins of fish a year and import millions of tons of grain and coal. Now Moynaq's fleet lies beached in the desert just outside town, 100 km from the shore...
...Japanese father poses his wife and kid in front of the rubble of WTC Building 7, the nearest devastated building to Century 21. It is now eight stories of molten, molded metal. Twisted beams project from the seventh floor like a scarecrow ghoul, its head soldered to the shell of the shard. Two decades ago, some government arts agency would have paid Richard Serra a bundle to devise and execute this idea. Even now, it has a weird... not beauty, but aleatory artfulness. In the current issue of a newsweekly (but not in THE newsweekly), the architect Bart Voorsanger says...
...wake of the September 11th terrorist attacks, state and local politics have taken a back seat to national concerns. Now that election day is nigh, however, candidates embroiled in major races in New York City, New Jersey and Virginia are hoping that voters will direct their attention to their nearest voting booth - at least for a few minutes...