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Such eloquence! Such force! In a summer spent reading Latin love elegy and Ciceronian rhetorical treatise, the bluntness of Eamon’s kiss-off should have seemed pedestrian, but this was the summer of pop, and for that summer, this song was ours...
According to the designs, Harvard will construct new graduate student housing on Cowperthwaite Street across from Dunster and Mather Houses. The building will range in height from 45 to 55 feet and replace the existing parking lot. The path next to Leverett House will remain a pedestrian walkway. The University will also build six new houses along Grant and Banks Streets, each two-to-three stories tall...
When a massive bomb exploded at the entrance of Australia's heavily fortified embassy in Jakarta Sept. 9, it rattled what had been a fairly pedestrian election campaign. Whether it was timed to unnerve Australian voters, influence the Sept. 20 Indonesian presidential election or mark the third anniversary of the 9/11 attacks, the blast and its victims - including a gravely injured five-year-old Australian girl - skittled economic analysis off the front pages...
...city's potholed streets are 4 million cars and trucks, 600,000 motorized two- and three-wheeled vehicles and innumerable bicycles and nonmotorized forms of transport ranging from trishaws to ox carts. There are also animals, everything from sacred cows to dogs, cats, monkeys?as well as countless pedestrians. The latter do not fare well in this free-for-all. New Delhi's newspapers recently labeled the city a "pedestrian graveyard." According to the capital's transport department, nearly half of the 1,700 people killed in traffic in the city last year were on foot...
...genre; his Dark City and The Crow created vivid, lurid nightscapes. This time, even given a lavishly muscled superstar and a murder plot with a soft heart (Sonny is a member of a minority the prejudiced cop has to learn to love), the gifted visualist goes all pedestrian and impersonal...