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...papers on the military and intelligence capabilities of several foreign countries. During questioning, Pollard confessed to receiving $2,500 a month since early 1984 in exchange for U.S. documents that he gave to Israeli contacts in Washington. Agents later discovered a suitcase crammed with top-secret papers in the basement of Pollard's apartment building. Anne Henderson-Pollard had planned to destroy the material...
...Ferdinand Marcos and his wife Imelda, they witnessed a show of conspicuous consumption beyond their imaginings. Inside Imelda's boudoir were two queen-size beds on an elevated platform, and a grand piano. The former First Lady's washbasin was made of gold. Downstairs, in a not-so-bargain basement, the woman who used to refer to "my fellow poor" had left behind some 2,700 pairs of size eight shoes, five shelves of Gucci handbags and 38 of her 105 clothes racks, designed to carry 80 outfits each. Around the château hung life-size portraits depicting the former...
Swapping books and bagels for music and beer, 988 undergraduates—nearly one-sixth of the student body—helped transform the basement space into a more enticing social option on the first Pub Night...
...faculty members poured into the lecture hall, overflowing the room’s 350 seats, Summers met with members of his staff and the docket committee in the basement and took a moment by himself in an empty classroom...
Traditionally seen as a place to grab Fly-By meals or frantically compare answers to Chem 15 problem sets, the underused space in the basement of Memorial Hall took on a different character for six weekend evenings as the College administration, Harvard Student Agencies, and Veritas Records ran their hugely successful Pub Nights...