Word: toweritis
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...could have found no more devoted Watch-man than Snyder. The ultimate fetishist-auteur, he takes hallowed pulp artifacts - the '70s horror movie Dawn of the Dead, the Frank Miller graphic novel 300 and now this - and films them with the near-fanatic fidelity of someone constructing an Eiffel Tower replica out of matchsticks...
...walk up the stairs of Eliot tower, toward a pale blue practice room with a romantic Cambridge view. He opens the door, grabs a chair and pulls out the endpin on his cello. As he resins the bow, he lectures on the subtle differences between bows...
...Members of the Medical School’s security office declined to comment on the vandalism. The building also houses Partners in Health, a Harvard-affiliated non-profit organization, but both the Department of Global Health and Social Medicine and Partners in Health are temporarily located at the Prudential Tower in downtown Boston for the 2008-2009 academic year due to the ongoing renovations. —Staff writer Emily J. Hogan can be reached at ejhogan@fas.harvard.edu...
...Stephen Jay Gould. We can observe the fact of evolution in populations of animals or plants that change even over a human lifetime, just as we can observe that bricks of different weights all hit the ground at the same time when chucked over the side of the leaning tower of Pisa...
Jeff Wagoner is a bankruptcy attorney in Kansas City, Mo., with the brush-cut hair and clear eyes of a former Navy aviator. From his office in a tower on a hill, he can see miles of prairie and a world of hurt. Wagoner's clients (and he has plenty these days) range from folks who had no business ever buying a house to folks freshly fired from executive suites. Based on his survey of the economic wreckage, Wagoner's conclusion is that even the slightest miscalculation or change in circumstances could send another customer through his door: "There...