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...leading attraction is Rangoon (Yangon). Giant stupas sparkling in the sun have captivated newcomers for centuries. The mesmeric gilded domes of Sule and Shwedagon pagodas tower above the capital. Dawn and dusk walks, past hundreds of kneeling devotees as plumes of incense waft over their prayers, are unforgettable...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Burmese Daze: Should We Boycott or Go? | 3/19/2001 | See Source »

With only Engell's rhetoric course on campus, some professors and students worry that Harvard is not giving its students the preparation they need for the world outside the ivory tower...

Author: By Nicole B. Usher, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: The Last Breath of a Once Proud Art | 3/19/2001 | See Source »

...distribution of music. Napster had just signed a pact with the record label Bertelsmann, and it looked as if the rest of the Big Five labels would follow suit shortly. Napster would set up a subscription service, I predicted, and you and I would never buy another CD at Tower Records again...

Author: By Alex F. Rubalcava, | Title: When Laws Work Too Well | 3/19/2001 | See Source »

...just be in the lab, in the library, in the ivory tower," Noam said. "Some of the best opportunities [for learning] are at the margin--in interaction with the community...

Author: By Imtiyaz H. Delawala, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Harvard Pushes Local Investment | 3/14/2001 | See Source »

...mail clerk, is taking his leave of this world in a bedroom that was mine when I was 18. I lay where he is lying now, in the northeast corner of the room, and looked out the window at night to a red blinking light on a distant water tower and imagined living in New York City and other grand things, and now at 87 he lies in the bed and imagines the risen Christ meeting him with open arms, as in the hymns that his morning nurse Ramona sings...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Goodbye to All That | 3/12/2001 | See Source »

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