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Before coming to Cambridge, O Coilean taught and studied at Cork--now, he works in a basement office in Widener Library that he shares with Kelleber, eleventh on a waiting list to get his own Widener office...
Once it was a farmhouse, a great Federal affair of brick and hand-hewn oak that majestically held a Pennsylvania knoll just west of Philadelphia. It was a very old house-any architecture major could tell that-for down beneath the basement was a chamber as dark as the grave. This had been a depot on the Underground Railroad, a hiding cellar for northbound slaves. The landholders, generation after generation, had given over their rolling soil and their Quaker time to corn and cows, and for a very long while there it would seem the clock stood still...
Saltonstall said the failure occurred when Facilities and Maintenance (F&M) workers preparing to turn on the University's steam heating system inadvertently flooded the electrical vault in the basement of Eliot House...
Officials in the Harvard ticket office said yesterday that the policy seems to have discouraged many students from purchasing tickets to the game. Despite the fact that Army has allotted a block of several thousand seats for Harvard students, "only a handful have come down to the basement of Harvard Hall to pick up tickets," said Ticket Manager Gordon Page...
...often, only to slip away, that no one seemed surprised when the ceremony was delayed for five hours on Thursday. After all, Shimon Peres and Yitzhak Shamir had been up until 5 a.m. negotiating the last detail. Finally, at 3:45 p.m., the two met again in the Knesset basement. Sitting at a blue cloth-covered table and surrounded by colleagues, Labor Leader Peres and Likud Chief Shamir signed the accord that established a national unity government. Cognac glasses in hand, the new partners toasted the accomplishment with cries of "L 'chayim " (To life...