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...Cambridge Fire Department (CFD) detected dangerous carbon monoxide gas in some apartments and ordered the evacuation. Shortly after residents began to evacuate, the built-up gas caused an explosion under a manhole...
...opening of Fight Club makes it clear that the movie's a satire. It's supposed to be a biting mockery of yuppie angst. When Norton starts attending testicular cancer and TB support groups to release his anger and built-up anxiety, we laugh (albeit uncomfortably, but we laugh). When he meets Marla Singer (Helena Bonham Carter), a fellow support group squatter, and they divide group therapy sessions between them, we laugh. But when blood starts flying, Norton starts crying, and buildings start frying, we stop laughing. (It almost reminded me of Showgirls, the way the movie just loses...
...Necessary Liquid Courage" (Opinion, Feb. 3), Melissa Rose Langsam makes some comments on drinking that are quite erroneous. Her premise for the reason why Harvard students, specifically first-years, drink is that they are so unhappy here that they have no other outlet for their built-up frustrations. While this may be true for her, it seems unlikely that this assumption is universal within the College...
...called) is a promise masquerading as a policy, so naturally its chances are bright. It pledges fiscal discipline, but only tomorrow -- which in the world of the federal budget never comes. Passing this "do-nothing amendment," says Republican Senator Nancy Kassebaum, "will let us proclaim victory, vent built-up public pressure and withdraw once again from the fight for a balanced budget." For even if it passes, as Kassebaum says, "circumventing it will be routine...
...said that the Cold War's aftereffects, includ- ing built-up defense systems and a history ofmistrust between the United States and the SovietUnion, would make change more difficult...