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...China Airlines jetliner crashed and burned in Nagoya, Japan, after the pilot radioed the control tower that he was making a second landing attempt. At week's end the death toll...
...years, Yale was convinced that it could be an ivory tower removed from the life on the city. It ignored rising crime and other social ills. When things got too bad, the university simply hired more cops (enough to fund three mid-sized academic departments) and bought biggest locks for its gates...
Harvard students at the time emerged from "the ivory tower and became interested in all sorts of issues," says Barbara J. Ackermann, a former Cambridge mayor who served as a city councillor...
...boardroom table to dive through the glass en route to a majestic conclusion. The next executive to try the same meets with plexiglass. Even the closing scenes when Barnes faces death from the 44th floor has its great moments. These are innovative takes on the physical possibilities of office tower suicides, but the Coens set a tone early on they cannot keep up, and the fragmentary vision never comes together...
...north in Beijing, China too is on a capitalist splurge. Every block has its own office tower and luxury hotel under construction, and everybody is an entrepreneur. On a visit with American journalists to the Great Wall, where you can now get a bucket of Kentucky Fried Chicken, two middle-aged former Marxists share their experiences of trying to make it big in the new China. One is marketing a spray said to kill hiv, the virus that causes aids. The other is trying to develop a Buddhism theme park...