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...Some say the world will end in fire, some say in ice," a noted New England poet once intoned. Despite the blanket of snow and ice that has engulfed Harvard, life goes on, amid complaints of more snow to come...
...move viewed as a partial concession to the powerful and militant Mather House Student Breakfast Lobby, Dean Fox irons a new wrinkle into the breakfast austerity game: cold breakfasts... in bed. The resurrected Harvard Enquirer runs a feature story on the so-called "wet blanket" plan, querying: "Is Dean Fox the New Marie Antionette...
Christmas has come a little early for 389 members of the White House staff-all those, in fact, who earn less than $47,500. Santa Carter has boosted their pay by 7.05%, effective Oct. 9. While many of the staffers no doubt deserved a merit raise, the blanket increase-to a top of $47,500 for some people-lifted Washington eyebrows. Quite a few who got the increases had held modest to middling jobs before joining the White House staff, made fractions of their current pay, and were hired less for their professional ability than for the political help they...
...revealed that Biko had been kept naked and chained in his cell for most of the 26 days he spent in detention-as well as during two full nights of interrogation. During the last 24 hours of his life, he had been driven, still unclothed but covered by a blanket, in the back of a police Land-Rover all the way to Pretoria, where he died of the head injuries 14 hours later...
...year-old woman out of the building, presumably for an afternoon airing. The bewildered lady was found sitting in her wheelchair, abandoned at a street corner, some time later. Her ostensibly helpful visitors had vanished-and so too had the electric typewriter they had apparently hidden under a blanket on her lap. At least the getaway driver and wheels were found...