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...river of ice shifts, but it's always made up of treacherously crumbly stretches of ice, ladders roped together over wide crevasses, slightly narrower crevasses that must be jumped, huge seracs, avalanches and--most frustrating for a blind person, who naturally seeks to identify patterns in his terrain--a totally random icescape...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Adventure: Blind To Failure | 6/18/2001 | See Source »

...river of ice shifts, but it's always made up of treacherously crumbly stretches of ice, ladders roped together over wide crevasses, slightly narrower crevasses that must be jumped, huge seracs, avalanches and?most frustrating for a blind person, who naturally seeks to identify patterns in his terrain?a totally random icescape...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Blind To Failure | 6/18/2001 | See Source »

Choosing to come here was a shot in the dark that turned out to be surprisingly successful. I’m most pleased about how easy it was to fit in. So much in literature describes coming to America as though it were negotiating some remote terrain. Yet over meals I’ve managed to discuss everything and anything with my friends, from shared childhood memories (sure, “The Cosby Show” was an international hit, but who knew slap bracelets were a worldwide trend in the early ’90s?) to emotional issues (which...

Author: By Daryl Sng, | Title: Finding a Home in Cambridge | 6/5/2001 | See Source »

When Edward R.M. Kane `51 arrived at Harvard in the fall of 1947, he had never traveled further from Massachusetts than New York City. Fifty years later, Kane has spent the majority of his life living in the world's most unstable political terrain...

Author: By Nicole B. Usher, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Kane Picks Up CIA Ticket to Travel | 6/4/2001 | See Source »

...Occupy the Middle.In post-Jeffords Washington, Bush will have to tack to the middle. You can make his move seem even more artificial and transparent by staking out the middle as your own natural terrain. By the time he gets there, it will seem like he's trespassing...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: So, Al, What Have You Been Doing Lately? | 6/1/2001 | See Source »

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