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...University’s central cooling plant, located in the basement of the Science Center, has faced no problems despite the heavy demands for chilled water from those buildings that are equipped with air conditioning...
...clear skyline. The symmetry is perfect. As your senses recover, however, the brilliance fades. Plastic bottles litter the lawns, the canals are dirty, guides offering tours for an inflated price are maddeningly insistent. The colored engravings are chipped and, in places, have fallen off. The graves in the basement are off-limits, the entrance blocked with untidy wire mesh. The inner sanctum smells of bats and pigeon droppings. Enormous beehives hang from the arches; black smoke stains mark where others have been burned off. The river behind the tomb is sluggish from sewage...
...Juan Lara was a Latin dancer and singer before being introduced to woodworking. Regarding this work as an essential like food, by 1986 he apprenticed to a cabinetmaker and seven years after toiled in a basement shop. In 1995, he became owner of this storefront showcase and workshop. Letter holders, games, and pencil holders sell for $25. Beds, bookcases, tables, entertainment centers, coat racks, computer desks can be custom ordered in modern or country style...
...having with a group of GOP congressmen. As Whitman droned on about Bush's environmental policy, all eyes in the room shifted to McCain who darted from table to table extracting whispered pledges of support from four moderates. Three blocks away, Gephardt huddled with Democrats in a packed basement room off the House chamber, waving a news story reporting that the National Republican Congressional Committee had raked in $39 million the first six months of this year, twice what its Democratic counterpart collected. Republicans are winning the money chase and unless Democrats halt it with campaign reforms, "we're going...
...slipperiest slope is the one that begins, "Tout comprendre, c'est tout pardonner." To understand everything is to forgive everything. Put Jean Valjean on the moral sliding board. Instead of stealing candlesticks, have him line up seven people in a basement and shoot them in the head. You might have to rewrite Les Miserables a little. A realignment of sympathies will have occurred as to who is the innocent victim in the case...