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...Three Pilgrimages,” which started with the sight of a far-off water tower, Parlato traces the same idea of sacredness running through urban life in the West...
...officer sent to the Mather House tower on a report of a person stuck in an elevator was unable to locate anyone stuck in the elevator...
...city and managed to graduate from City College at 18. A civil engineer by training, he went into real estate and made his fortune. He has constructed about a dozen properties in Manhattan, among them several high-end buildings on the edge of Central Park, including the Fifth Avenue tower in which Eliot now lives with his wife and three daughters. Spitzer's mother Anne grew up in modest circumstances. She became an academic and teaches literature at Marymount Manhattan College in New York...
...paid to local telephone companies to complete calls and therefore were not capital outlays but operating costs, which should be expensed in full each year. It was as if an ordinary person had paid his phone bills but written down the payments as if he were building a phone tower in his backyard. The trick allowed WorldCom to turn a $662 million loss into a $2.4 billion profit...
...Church’s claim to the Danilov Bells contains more than a measure of legitimacy. Nevertheless, there is something irresistibly comic in the Church’s implicit demand that because we can send men to Mars, we ought to be able to dismantle the Lowell House Bell Tower and send the bells back to Russia in time for the 700th anniversary of Saint Danilov’s death, three months from...