Word: tunnels
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...think that a lot of people at Harvard go through their four years thinking that Cambridge doesn't go beyond the Square," he says. "They look at things with a sort of tunnel vision. I've been thankful enough to have a job that exposes me to all sides of Cambridge...
...time, there was no way of knowing the significance of the final leg of the torch run at the opening ceremony for the Atlanta Olympics. It was simply nice that the leg began with Atlanta native and former Olympic boxer Evander Holyfield running in the tunnel beneath the stadium, with his own smile as a beacon, and ended with the lighting of the torch by Muhammad...
...mouth before Clinton made it a two-way span, with himself poised at the last exit before the 21st century. Dole meanwhile was left behind in a horse and buggy on a rickety wooden model. Most people just wanted to make a U-turn, get off and take the tunnel...
Charles Krauthammer's article "A Desecration of Truth," stating that the press maligns Israel while giving Palestinians a free pass [ESSAY, Oct. 14], is a perfect example of tunnel vision. Has Krauthammer read the news reports over the past six months? The world press generally agreed that the opening of the Jerusalem tunnel was merely the spark that ignited long-smoldering flames of despair over years of injustice by the Israeli government against the Palestinians. Widen your vision, Krauthammer; take the long view of history and begin with the exiling of the Palestinian people in 1948. ROSE TRIGG Colorado Springs...
Krauthammer accuses me of having "parroted" Muslims' charges that the "tunnel cuts under their compound" and their claim that the act was "a crime against Islam." That is precisely what the Muslims did say. But either he didn't watch the next several minutes of our news broadcast or ignored the remainder of the report. I added in my very next sentence that the "Israelis say they have touched nothing holy, merely a raw political nerve." Elsewhere on World News Tonight, we made it clear that the Muslim claim was, technically speaking, ambiguous at best. I recognize Krauthammer's license...