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...Apparently the library had turned off their alarms. We don't know what happened, but the alarm didn't go off," he said. "The alarm went off in the morning. That was when it was being turned back on or being tested...
Russia, however, views the prospect of a fundamentalist Islamic Afghanistan with undisguised alarm, particularly the projection of Taliban rule or influence into pro-Moscow Tajikistan, whose border with Afghanistan is already patrolled by Russian soldiers. Last week Boris Yeltsin sent his Prime Minister to a hurriedly arranged meeting of leaders from four former Soviet--and predominantly Muslim--republics in Central Asia. Security Chief Alexander Lebed announced that Russia should help prop up Rabbani, though it is hard to imagine a Russian return to Afghanistan...
Today the timber industry no longer enjoys the absolute fealty it once did. Mainers have watched with alarm over the past two decades as some 2,000 sq. mi. of forest--roughly the area of Delaware--have been clear-cut. From the air, the rich coat of the North Woods looks like it has mange. In the past five years, softwoods such as spruce and fir have been chopped down at a pace almost double their rate of growth. "There is no question that clear-cutting was overused," concedes Roger Milliken, one of the most progressive of the large landowners...
...released last week by the Athletic Department on funding of interscholastic sports revealed that Harvard spent nearly twice as much on men's sports teams as it did on women's teams during the 1995-6 academic year. While the statistic may seem disturbing, it is no cause for alarm. A careful review of the report dispels concerns about the possibility of rampant discrimination against female athletes at Harvard. Indeed some steps may be warranted to narrow the spending gap, but the report does not illustrate any pattern of unfairness. There is no indication that Harvard has provided female athletes...
Every night I drank beer at Cronin's with my friends, but retired by ten o'clock. An alarm woke me at six; shaggy with sleep, unshaved and uncombed, with a black binder of poetry wedged under my arm, I plugged up hill to Harvard Square and a booth at Albiani's, black coffee, Danish, a lined pad, and my Parker 51.I crossed old words out and substituted words that probably I would cross out in their turn tomorrow. After two hours I walked back to Eliot House and breakfast with the day ahead of me: lectures, Grolier, reading...