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...that is completely made of reflective glass and aggressive angles. Although it is fairly shocking to catch sight of yourself in the wall, the Hancock also reflects beautiful images of Trinity Church and Copley Square along with the posse of skaters who flock around the fountain next store and perch with the pigeons on the statue of Phillips Brooks. But back to the security issues. The Hancock is not exactly the site of surreptitious government activity or important UN operations--it's just a big building filled with insurance salesmen, but Mr. Guard seems to think that every little...
...winter in Cambridge, but the glass walls of the Science Center's Machine Room #1 sustain a jungle: mice hang from swinging cables, keyboards perch on walls and wires droop down from every crack and crevice like banyon sprouts. This is Harvard's biggest computer--a seemingly haphazard assemblage of mismatched computer parts that actually serves (well, most of the time) to facilitate Harvard networking. Mecca for computer geeks and e-mail junkies alike, here sit the guts and glory of our modern net-crazed campus...
With its offense off in apparent hibernation, Harvard (6-10, 3-2 Ivy) stumbled on the road to a fourth consecutive Ivy League title last weekend, dropping a pair of conference road games and toppling from the ranks of the unbeaten and from its perch atop the Ivy standings. HARVARD 44 YALE 59 HARVARD 65 BROWN...
...next morning Lott made another important phone call, this one to Tom Daschle, the Senate's Democratic leader and the man serving as the White House's surrogate in negotiations over the structure of a trial. From his perch in Pascagoula, where he was juggling three phones and a fax machine while baby-sitting little Trent III, his seven-month-old grandson, Lott had been quietly collaborating with Daschle and other Senators on a plan to rush the impeachment issue through the Senate in just a few weeks. Daschle told Lott that the Democrats and the White House would...
...winds are taking their craft straight toward the world's most closed and paranoid nation, North Korea. If they're fortunate, an atmospheric depression will steer them over South Korea instead. And from there, it's on to America, which the team hopes to reach by Christmas. From his perch 31,000 feet above the earth, Branson is no doubt wishing for the holiday to be a windy...