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ACROSS KIRKLAND Street from the Science Center is the Lawrence Lowell Lecutre Hall, an empty, old, red-brick building with a lot of potential. The College has no real student union, and the empty lecture hall might become a good place to focus for the College's social life...

Author: By David S. Graham, | Title: Harvard Buildings: | 4/7/1987 | See Source »

Strange odors sometimes wafted from the grimy yellow brick house in the Tioga section of North Philadelphia, smells that neighbors likened to burning flesh. Then there were the odd noises: hammering at all hours, and what sounded like an electric saw and other power tools. Heavy-metal music blared day and night. But no one suspected the horrors that Philadelphia police discovered last week . when they raided the house owned by Gary Heidnik, 43, a self-anointed "bishop" of his own church who flashed rolls of money and drove expensive cars...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: House Of Horrors: Serial murder in Philadelphia | 4/6/1987 | See Source »

...section of the Shatt al Arab that flows past Basra has been damaged or destroyed. The beige facade of the deserted four-story Sheraton Basra is pockmarked with shrapnel and shell holes. During the intense bombardment in January and February, thousands of panicked residents abandoned their middle-class brick homes near the water...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Gulf Life Among the Smoldering Ruins | 3/30/1987 | See Source »

Across the Atlantic Ocean sits another Harvard structure almost equally as resplendent as Villa Tatti. Adjacent to the Danish Embassy in Georgetown, nestled among 16 acres of formal gardens, Japanese cherry trees and pebble covered paths, is a 19th-century brick mansion, which houses the Dumbarton Oaks Research Center and Library...

Author: By David M. Lazarus, | Title: The Sun Seldom Sets On Harvard's Empire | 3/25/1987 | See Source »

...Western Massachusetts forest served a very different purpose during World War II. Frightened by reports of German submarines hiding along the Boston coast, the University transferred many of its most valuable art works to the forest where they remained safely hidden in brick buildings until...

Author: By David M. Lazarus, | Title: The Sun Seldom Sets On Harvard's Empire | 3/25/1987 | See Source »

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