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...began his campaign for justice soon after arriving at Harvard. During his first-year, he lived in Wigglesworth E. It was a cosy community of 12 friendly but overheated people, living above the dormitory's notoriously overactive boiler...
...conservatives argued bitterly over who was responsible for the party's fading power. Nine members of the twelve-member council were forced to give accounts of themselves, and the assembly was not about to let them get away with long-winded, cliche-laden speeches. Where past Kremlin meetings greeted boiler-plate presentations with perfunctory outbursts of applause, this one constantly interrupted party ideologist Vadim Medvedev's lackluster presentation with insolent rhythmic clapping. When chief economist Leonid Abalkin warned delegates that the socialist idea had begun to lose its popular appeal and the only way to save it was to switch...
...Soviet experts listened to Gorbachev's long toast of muted optimism, almost a plea for true friendship, and sensed that he was a little less confident than on his Washington visit in 1987. Showtime is over, and a political animal like Gorbachev has a hard time descending to the boiler room where the work must be done...
...Nine sailors were injured when fire broke out in the boiler room of the U.S.S. Monongahela as it cruised near Spain...
Never mind that the hot stove league sounded more like a pot boiler with stories of the Wade Boggs extramarital affair. The opening pitch in the 51 degree chill had the atmosphere of a fall playoff and the cheers--even for Boggs--from the sellout crowd seemed to indicate that the team's dismal start was forgotten, if only...