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...these military families, being prepared for an emergency means more than having flashlights and water stored in the basement. It means 18-year-old infantrymen who have to decide who gets their stuff if they never come home, and parents agreeing on who gets their children until they do. It is sperm banks offering to give military couples a year's free storage, in case a chemical attack destroys a husband's fertility or an older wife wants to keep trying to have a baby and can't afford to wait a year while her husband is gone...
Almost 150 students packed the hallways of Holworthy basement on Monday, all in search of the boxes supplied by the Undergraduate Council (UC) at the close of each year, only to find that the boxes—already once-delayed in their arrival—were not ready for them. While the UC had promised a 10 a.m. opening of sales on Monday, by the time the boxes arrived in the late afternoon, crowds had swelled and tempers had flared. In the rush that ensued, the boxes were sold out within an hour. “Once they came...
...Radcliffe Union. But in 1990, more than 1,000 students petitioned for a College-sponsored center, arguing that the Quad space was too small and too far from Harvard Yard. Leaders of campus women’s groups called for a three-room center in a Yard dorm basement in 2000. And in 2004, the Radcliffe Union called for a center inside Hilles Library. This past September, College officials made their first public endorsement for building the Women’s Center. By December, the College was advertising for a center director. “Students have kept up their...
...attended by First Lady Laura Bush and the President, who simultaneously embraced McClellan and his wife Jill, who have four cats and two dogs. Last Friday, after McClellan?s last formal briefing, he was feted by the small group of reporters whose work spaces are in the White House basement. They have their own informal civic association, and busted out the seven-layer dip, champagne and cookies that said "Scott...
...basement had been decorated with "One Tough Grandma" bumper stickers, lawn signs and T-shirts from the independent gubernatorial campaign of McClellan's mother, Texas Comptroller Carole Keeton Strayhorn. In her folksy lilt, Strayhorn had recorded a farewell greeting in which she said she had an urgent assignment...