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...voices in his head told him the police were after him again. He rammed into a wall, pinning and killing a man. Last year he walked up to a utility repairman and threatened to kill him for no reason. Each time, Earl has come to the city jail to await an opening at the state mental hospital. Huff knows Earl by now and has compassion for him. He remembers how, when he was six, he watched his own aunt make the trip to Whitfield. Of naked Earl in his jail, Huff says, "He doesn't feel like he's losing...
...rather than await the board's judgement on the old proposal and risk a total rejection of its plans, Harvard has chosen to add months to its design process--which is already approaching its third year--by beginning anew...
...Harvard must decide whether to submit its proposal as it now stands and await the final ruling of the MCNDC or to make significant changes to the architectural plans...
...NCAA and Brown work out some sort of punishment for the violations, the rest of the Ivies will have to sit patiently and await any results that could impact the entire conference. There seems little hope of overturning the nearly half-century old Ivy Group Agreement, so recruiting practices will probably resume as before...
...people of Cardenas, that time is long overdue. "The law of the sea is that you provide shelter for a shipwreck and take him home," says Jorge, 75, a fisherman. "More so in the case of a child." And while they await his return, the citizens of Cardenas are afraid that Elian may no longer be himself because he has not had a chance to grieve for his mother, lost at sea during her voyage to Florida. They imagine the voices he heard as the boat went down, the prayers and the screaming and the long loneliness as he floated...