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...while opposition to Richardson has been rumbling for a while, this breach may well be the straw that breaks the camel's back. How does one explain, for example, the three-week delay between the initial discovery that hard drives containing top-secret information had been taken from the Chris Carter-esque "X Division" of the Los Alamos nuclear laboratory and any report to Washington...
...horrific indignities. First, because the restaurant was still in the midst of its dinner rush and the hostess did not understand that APALSA group intended to order food, they were forced to wait 25 minutes to get a table. Second--and this was the straw that broke the camel's back--the group was asked to present I.D. at the door...
...unusual for a visiting President to see a country's best side. But in India the contrast with the worst is starker than most. Roads normally choked with the cacophony of Third World traffic--battered cars and trucks, camel-and horse-drawn carts, wandering cows, beggars, bicycles, rickshas and pedestrians--became for Clinton's motorcade clear thoroughfares for miles on end, with spectators held back by fences built especially for his visit...
...heated floors. Although interior brick and concrete walls present a formidable obstacle to home decorating, the masters have risen to the occasion. "The architecture challenges us to make it human and warm," explains Sandra Naddaff, Mather House master for seven years. Colorful furniture, like a pair of camel-back blue couches and a massive painting of the Taj Mahal at sunset by a Harvard grad, as well as other artwork courtesy of the Fogg, gives the gargantuan rooms a classical character. In addition to seven-and-a-half baths, and four large bedrooms, an atrium connecting the dining room...
...dwindling. "It'd hurt if it doesn't happen, but you can't think that way," Jones says, as another student's foot slams through the gym's low ceiling on an errant flip. "Making it takes discipline, desire and dedication," he adds. Then he goes outside, lights a Camel and coughs up what sounds like part of a lung...