Word: toweritis
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...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...
...Jacoby coined it in The Last Intellectuals: American Culture in the Age of Academe to describe the type of scholar whose disappearance his book lamented. He argued that colleges and universities had coopted all of society’s great minds and shut them up in the proverbial ivory tower, where their ideas and theories were of no use to the general public...
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...