Word: towered
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...ALEXEI MITROPHANOV, State Duma Deputy Start at the cozy Red Bar on the 22nd floor of the Bagration Bridge Tower, pictured, in Kutuzovsky Prospect to enjoy the full view of the city. Take a cab to the Prado restaurant in Slavyanskaya Square for a delightful European or Asian dinner in old Moscow's downtown. Then take a postdinner walk to Tverskaya, the city's main artery, and drop into the classy and expensive Night-Flight club to mix with the most beautiful women in Moscow...
Kaavya Viswanathan did not fall, as some would posit, from the glorious perch of a published author. Kaavya’s roost was atop the same rickety tower of meritocracy that so many of us built on our way to our Harvard admission...
...just because we sleep between Ivy-covered walls, it doesn’t mean we sleep soundly. And as we climb higher, the tower weakens further under instability of its hasty structure. Some breeze might come along and poke out a rung, and suddenly we’ll be back on the ground, surrounded by the rubble of our own accomplishments...
That’s where Kaavya sits, and it’s scary for us to see her there. Although assuring ourselves that we would never plagiarize others’ work, we, too, fear that some freak revelation might suddenly collapse our own personal tower...
...dared to add one more accomplishment to her tower and fell all the way back to New Jersey. Somewhere in the sky there is a tier of security, but Kaavya’s fall shows us that right now we are nowhere close...