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...Lake City, Nashville and Miami in the late 1990s. "They're a very rare event," Jim Keeney, meteorologist at the National Weather Service's Kansas City, Mo., office, said of urban tornadoes. But, he explains, tornadoes form at an atmospheric level far above skyscrapers like Chicago's iconic Sears Tower. So tall buildings don't prevent their formation in cities...
...STEPPING OUT OF THE IVORY TOWER...
...Harvard of a half-century ago was still an ivory tower, complacent in its detachment from the world. This ceased being the case in the 1960s, although it wasn’t fully understood by President Nathan M. Pusey ’28, whose main complaint about the students who disrupted ideas and traditional order in the late 1960s was that they had execrable manners (so bad, indeed, that he called the police hours after their occupation of University Hall, when a little amount of empathy and patience would have avoided the tribulations and histrionics that followed). The University...
...experience at the Kennedy School as a weapon to fight corruption, poverty, and “the mediocrity and low productivity” of Liberian government. She added that many of the students graduating will face “similar circumstances” when they leave the Ivory Tower today...
...Kenyatta’s long crusade for racial justice would continue at Harvard Law School, where he sought to take on racial discrimination from within the Ivory Tower itself...