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Even if the situation seems less than desirable, perhaps it is inevitable. The land is owned by Cambridge Savings Bank, and economics dictates that prime real estate commands sky-high rent. Alpha-Omega representative Amit Handa listed Harvard Square as one of Boston’s top three tourist destinations, along with Quincy Market and Newbury Street. Combine that with the concentrated wealth of Cambridge, and the Harvard Square location reaches a comfortable target audience...
...pooled money, brainpower and technology in a group effort. Alas, the glory of being the first to bring back data about life on Mars defies financial logic. As Pillinger says, "There cannot be a human in the world who has not looked at the stars in the night sky and thought, 'Are we alone?' Some say it would be like the moment in the 16th century when Copernicus discovered that we revolved around the sun, not the sun round us. But I think this will be bigger...
...outspoken as in the angry-white-male '90s. Architects last summer released their first proposals for rebuilding the World Trade Center site--and the designs were quickly smacked down by the public as too blah and timid; a more adventurous set of plans, replete with soaring towers and sky gardens, was unveiled in December. During its second season, the terrorism drama 24 planted a nuclear bomb in Los Angeles. The Sopranos showed how quickly tragedy can become a banal, catchall excuse, as mobster Tony Soprano phonily blamed his behavior on 9/11 during a therapy session. Oh, and that business about...
...yearnings of Vietnam vets and drifters. But with The Rising, released near the Sept. 11 anniversary, he stuck to what we could all agree on: a feeling of sadness and a yearning for hope. Maybe because of the latter, The Rising's music can be oddly cheery--Empty Sky and Lonesome Day are awfully toe tapping for songs of mourning--as Springsteen keeps circling back to one central image: the clear blue sky over the Eastern seaboard on the morning of Sept. 11, 2001. The Rising is poignant, even wrenching ("Without you I'm ... an ice-cream truck...
...nothing but imperial garrisons. Ill health and the collapse of domestic political support meant that Wilson never got the chance to see if his world-changing ideas could be put into practice. Bush now needs to set out precisely how he intends to reach for the same blue sky. In 2003, he will have no more important task. --With reporting by Mark Thompson/Washington