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John Devin, Grant Blair's backup in the Harvard net, echoes the hometown sentiment. Devin was in net the last time the Crimson met the Eagles in the Beanpot--the consolation game of last year's tournament...
...second bill establishes an indirect federal backup to the ailing Farm Credit System, the privately owned cooperative that holds about one-third of the nation's $213 billion farm debt. The measure seeks to redistribute the system's assets by requiring prosperous banks to help financially pressed institutions. It also offers the prospect of assistance in the event of a credit collapse, but only if specifically approved by Congress. The bill was rushed to passage to reassure the Wall Street bond market, which each year buys some $100 billion of the system's paper...
...people stuck in elevators, but our crew just went around systematically, and got them out," Kilduff said. Thanks to backup emergency generators, service at Stillman Infirmary remained unaffected except for a downed elevator...
While emergency lights and backup generators provided a minimum of illumination in ballways and staireases in several blacked-out buildings, the outage bad a variety of effects on campus life. (See accompanying story...
Elevators stopped moving in Stillman Infirmary at Holyoke Center, but a University Health Services spokesman said it was only a minor inconvenience and that a backup generator allowed health care to continue uninterrupted...