Word: vacuums
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...ultimate demise of the mythological tower. The vaguely phallic structure references the Biblical tale of the Babylonians who attempted to construct a tower that would ascend to the heavens. Despite the provocative titling, however, his monochromatic apocalypses are more concerned with “mortality, power and a vacuum,” as Bergstein told The Crimson at the exhibit’s opening. They possess a vibrating, quivering energy and darkly morbid overtones from penetrating lines...
...fate of the Palestinian Authority. It was threatening to collapse even before the latest invasion, and even if it manages to survive the current Israeli onslaught, its ability to ensure order will be considerably diminished. Israel, of course, will be reluctant to leave behind a power vacuum in West Bank towns that have cradled Palestinian militancy, and that suggests a de facto reoccupation lasting a lot longer than Powell is predicting...
...peace and prosperity, was ended by a coup in 1973 while the monarch was in Italy for mud-bath treatments. At an interview with TIME, the King appeared in notably better health than he did five months ago, when world leaders began looking to him to help fill the vacuum left by the Taliban. Still, he is 87 years old. "But this is the very reason for my return," he insists. "I want to dedicate the last few years of my life to confront the difficulties in the land to which I belong." He will leave his villa in north...
...There is some logic in viewing Israel through this lens, particularly over the past year where terror attacks are a grim relentless routine, perhaps nowhere more so than in my home city of Jerusalem. Yet the attacks against Israel’s citizens do not take place in a vacuum. For example, Dershowitz would demand that the Palestinian Authority combat terror while Israel maintains a siege imprisoning three million Palestinians in their towns and villages. Though the siege has tripled Palestinian unemployment and reduced 60 percent of the Palestinian population to poverty, there is ostensibly no connection between this poverty...
...decision carefully considered in the midst of many ongoing projects. Unfortunately, the Undergraduate Council’s actions on this matter have not shown the same degree of careful thought and research. The council made its decisions regarding extension of hours at Lamont library in a complete vacuum, neither actively soliciting the opinion of the student body, nor expressing interest in conferring with the representatives it elected to the Faculty of Arts and Sciences (FAS) Standing Committee on the Library. The “research” cited in the council’s own report on the matter...