Word: towered
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...years at the Rand Corporation as a national researcher, applying his knowledge of statistics in the real world so he “could do more than teach the same courses I’d taken.” But even working as a statistician outside the ivory tower, baseball was never far away. “Hospitals are like baseball players,” he says. “They have batting averages for certain types of surgeries...
...outskirts of Moscow stands a giant television tower, the tallest structure in Europe. It is a tragic monument—once a symbol of Soviet power over Russian journalists but now, as new antennae make it 130 feet taller, a cosmetic triumph for the increasingly controlled Russian media. But despite the strength of this symbol, serious threats challenge the freedom of the Russian press. Russia’s lower house of parliament, the Duma, has just voted to extend new restrictions on a press that is already the subject to random raids and blackouts...
...press in the past, will reject the Duma’s proposal. In addition, little diplomatic pressure from the United States can be expected, as President George W. Bush continues to woo Putin away from the Axis of Evil. Tragically, as the height of Moscow’s TV tower rises, the soul of the Russian media will continue to be chained...
Harvard-Radcliffe Television (HRTV), another Harvard entrant into broadcasting, enjoyed brief fame with such shows as “Ivory Tower,” a soap opera set at Harvard, which it distributed to Houses via videotape...
Terry K. Rockefeller ’72, a documentary filmmaker, lost her sister when a temporary job took her to the 106th floor of the North Tower the morning of the attack...