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...bullet went through my throat and the throat of the woman next to me. In the dream, we were alive but could not speak. Then I woke up and told this story to my long-time beau. I don't even think I could even believe myself. The phone rang and my friend told me to turn on the television. I bring this up not because I'm a psychic but because the metaphorical quality of the dream struck me much later when I went back to look at our very strange series of reactions to the traumas of 9/11...
...Dang remembers the night in 1963 when the lights came on in Uong Bi. "People were so excited," the 70-year-old tea-shop owner says, recalling the cheers that rang through the northern Vietnamese town after one of the country's first coal-fired power plants began operating. "Their whole lives they had wished for electricity." Be careful what you wish for. Soon after the plant opened, Dang's wife developed a cough from the thick black smoke from the power plant that hung over the town. His children had near-constant runny noses and neighbors reported other nagging...
...recent films have tried to do just that: Rang De Basanti made a realistic portrayal of disaffected Delhi youth; Omkara was an adaptation of Othello; and Khosla ka Ghosla was a realistic portrayal of a Delhi family's brush with unscrupulous estate agents...
...Centennial Bell, a half-size replica bell, and bell-shaped cookies rang in concert yesterday at the Business School’s Baker Library. The library’s belltower became home to the first of 18 new bells being delivered from Russia to Harvard, with the rest slated to be installed in Lowell House next summer. The new set is coming to Cambridge in exchange for Harvard’s historic bells from Danilov Monastery in Moscow, which an American industrialist purchased from Josef Stalin’s Soviet Union and gave to the University in 1930. When...
...contest. Less than a minute and a half later, Vermont junior Maegan Luce scored an unassisted goal on the Crimson (5-4) to make the lead 2-0 in the Catamounts’ favor. While Harvard was able to get seven shots in the first period, the first buzzer rang without a Crimson point on the board. The Catamounts did not let their two-score lead prevent them from playing hard offense, and just two minutes into the second half, Luce knocked in another score, this time assisted by fellow junior Megan Maynard. The crowd of 300 in Burlington...