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During his first visit to Harvard in November 1959, Le Corbusier was struck by the sudden beauty of a flood of students on intersecting pathways between class periods. This hourly ritual became the basis for the spiral-shaped ramp that appears in the first sketch of what would become the Carpenter Center. This was to be a means of passing through the building as well as “une route touristique” [tourist route], and the diagonal movement of students was to be prompted by bells installed within the building...
...healthy and playing up to the lofty expectations that were set out before the first ball was struck earlier this season, the Crimson hopes history will repeat itself...
...11th when a hit batsman, error and intentional walk loaded the bases with only one out, but Brown stayed calm and got out of the jam. First, he induced Jamie Aldrich to ground to Klimkiewicz at first, who fired home for the force out. Then Brown struck out Tom Potvin on a low breaking pitch to end the threat...
...very next inning the Crimson struck again. After Stefanchik lined a single up the middle, Gordon blasted a rocket through the right side, and Stefanchik didn’t break her stride coming around second and sliding into third. Gordon promptly stole second to put two runners in scoring position...
According to Plan Of Attack, Bob Woodward's new book about the events leading to the war in Iraq, George W. Bush was struck by the stone-faced response to his eloquent address to the U.N. General Assembly in September 2002. "The more solemn they looked to me," he tells Woodward, speaking of the U.N. delegates, "the more emotional I was in making the case. Not openly emotional, the more firm I was in making the case. It was a speech I really enjoyed giving." A few weeks later, he tells some members of Congress about the moment: here were...