Word: towered
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...Flight 5191 for takeoff in the predawn darkness Sunday, they talked with air traffic controllers about Runway 22, Blue Grass Airport's main strip for commercial flights, a federal official said on CNN on Monday after listening to tapes recovered from the crashed plane's cockpit and the control tower. Somehow, the commuter jet and its 50 occupants ended up on Runway 26 instead, a cracked surface meant for small planes that was much too short for the twin-engine jet. The pilots tried to lift off, but the plane clipped trees, then quickly crashed in a field and burst...
...like to see movies about the decisions, on America's side and its enemies', that led to the attacks. Lawrence Wright's new book The Looming Tower: Al-Qaeda and the Road to 9/11 has six movies' worth of solid melodrama in the turf wars, the battle of ideas, among government agencies. The story of John O'Neill, head of the FBI's al-Qaeda unit, and his struggle to pry essential information out of the CIA, can bring a reader to angry tears. (O'Neill, who will be the subject of a TV movie starring Havey Keitel, left...
...ourselves. Consequently, we search for something unique and fantastic, an experience that will enable us to apply the knowledge we’ve presumably learned here, but also to acquire the practical and intangible that no 70-hour academic-cum-extracurricular-cum-social schedule that is our Ivory Tower Harvard life can provide. Our academic experiences in Thayer and Emerson seem necessary but also painfully insufficient during these sunny months that encourage creativity and challenge us to use the time as best we can.We are chasing some novel and edifying experience that is mercurial in both its grandeur...
From the 1993 World Trade Center bombing to Sept. 11, 2001, Path follows characters like John O'Neill (Harvey Keitel), the FBI agent who pursued bin Laden for years and died in Tower 2, and Kirk, a composite of CIA officers whose warnings--to get bin Laden in the 1990s, to better support the Taliban's enemies--went unheeded. (Presidents Bill Clinton and George W. Bush appear only in news clips.) Over six hours, we see the signals missed, the officials obsessed with protocol and covering their backsides and the best intentions stymied by bureaucracy, fate and the complexity...
...shoe bomber, was a klutz, but one who might have downed an airliner en route to the U.S. in the days after 9/11. But the Miami warehouse cult that gave Cheney the willies seemed like they'd have trouble finding a Sears let alone blowing up the Sears Tower...