Word: towers
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...selfish. I like to get away from Harvard for a little while every week and this is a way. Otherwise, you can start to feel like you're living in an ivory tower," HAND Coordinator for Kirkland House Amy L. Rosenberg '86 says...
...tiger, swims around in an ocean that soon becomes a desert, and then winds up back in his living room"--that completes a cycle. Like a Biblical parable, it tells of the destruction of civilization at the hands of hubristic pseudo-intellectuals. The punishment: society is destroyed like the Tower of Babel and sunk into the ocean like Atlantis...
...stolen art treasures, because the Marmottan could not afford the enormous insurance premiums on its permanent collection. Police doubt that the intention is to sell the purloined paintings to a collector, because their fame makes them, as a French journalist put it, "about as negotiable as the Eiffel Tower." One possibility is that the robbers are terrorists who hope to exchange the pictures for a captured colleague. Said Police Superintendent Thierry Boulogne, who is involved in the case: "No one hypothesis is being excluded. Everything is possible...
After the commandos were ordered by Washington to stand down, Stiner refused to give up entirely. When the 737 took off for Rome 17 hours later, carrying Abbas and another Palestinian official, Stiner hopped into a T-39 trainer jet. He took off from a taxiway without tower permission and shadowed the 737 to Rome, where he made an emergency landing. In his resignation speech last week, Prime Minister Bettino Craxi announced that Italy had filed a protest over both the T-39's landing and the pursuit of the 737 by an F-14 to within 25 miles...
...hectic series of negotiations between People and Frontier began when People Founder Donald Burr called Joseph O'Gorman, Frontier's president, about a deal. While on vacation in Monterey, Calif., Burr met with O'Gorman for two days. The talks then shifted to Denver's United Bank Tower and finally to New York's Chase Plaza. After receiving labor's blessing, Frontier's management opted for Burr's $24-a-share offer...