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...prefer more private settings. Rekha D. Packer ’76 lost her husband, Michael B. Packer ’76, on Sept, 11 when he was delivering a keynote speech to an e-commerce conference on the 106th floor of the World Trade Center’s North Tower. “We don’t care for large public settings too much,” said Rekha. “I write a little service for ourselves with the kids.” Rekha and her husband first met as undergraduates. “My husband...
...impact of the Boeing 767s damaged support columns and steel floor trusses, causing the inward collapse of perimeter columns, which pulled floors straight down. A misquote of a demolition expert propagated the explosives theory. Seismic spikes, caused by debris hitting the ground, were recorded 10 sec. after each tower started to fall...
From the city center, one can still see the UN tower which was used to mark the border between Jordan and Israel until the war. Hearing the history of the land Gilo is built on, I struggled to understand why the world cries for farmers and builders to be thrown out of the only homes they have known on land that was previously uninhabited and desolate and which Palestinians have not controlled in recent memory...
True, the University boasts few students at the front lines of these wars. The poorer kids are being sent to die in our place. But though it may not be a matter of life or death for us, the long arm of war has reached deep inside the ivory tower...
After the industrialist Charles R. Crane purchased the bells from the Soviet Union, he presented them as a gift to University President A. Lawrence Lowell in 1930. Lowell House, then under construction, had its tower redesigned to fit the bells...