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...Dorian Kutos PASS CHRISTIAN, MISS. The morning after the storm, the father and son left their ruined home to await rescue at the nearby beach. Four days later, they were still camped out on the decimated strand, with little more than a tarp and a few bottles of water, desperate for a ride north out of Pass Christian or a working phone to tell relatives they were alive, if not exactly well. "The house was rocking in the wind. I looked out the attic window, and water was approaching fast. I thought we were done...
...that the Hearst people went to Lord Foster--the peerage came in 1999--for years the man Asian banking executives and Arab sheiks have pursued for the luster of Big Architecture. When you visit his firm's vast London offices you understand what it must have been like to await an audience with the doge in 16th century Venice. Clients and would-be clients from around the world crisscross the reception area clutching their portfolios and chattering in Italian and Russian. The British press says his profits have been in decline. He even lost a commission last year...
Half of the 180 peer advising fellows, who will form the core of the new advising system, were selected last week without interviews, while 300 await interviews this week and the rest received rejections. The early selections were based on recommendations by members of the Student Advisory Board...
...Crimson enters the final week of the Ivy League regular season with a one-game lead on second-place Dartmouth, whose doubleheader against Yale was similarly postponed yesterday. The league office has not yet announced a make-up date for the finale of that series. Harvard will await the Big Green in the opening doubleheader of a four-game home-and-home series this weekend. A Crimson sweep today would mathematically eliminate the Bears, who occupied first place in the Rolfe division as recently as Apr. 15, from Ivy League Championship Series (ICS) contention. -The Crimson Staff
Advise & Warn. At 5 o'clock, the Queen is back once more in the palace to play with her children for another hour and-on Tuesdays-to await the weekly visit from the Prime Minister. Churchill used to drop in on her father at 5:30, but Elizabeth makes him wait until an hour later to give her more time in the nursery...