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...addition to the inconvenience, last week's flooding also damaged student property. For example, many students in Quincy House have had to throw out rugs that mildewed irreparably after soaking for hours in puddles of rainwater. And the nice new carpet laid down in New Quincy hallways over the summer now bears a most unpleasant stench...
Perhaps Agnew deserves a better remembrance. Although he did take cash bribes while vice president, he never ruthlessly carpet-bombed Indochinese civillians, nor did he condemn American youth to die in a needless war for political reasons. He didn't illegally marshal the resources of the CIA, FBI, IRS, FCC and the Justice Department against the news media and his political opponents. Compared to Tricky Dick, J. Edgar Hoover, Henry Kissinger '50, John Mitchell and other seriously and criminally depraved goons of Nixon's administration, Agnew was a petty thug...
Much of what the investigators seek remains beneath the ocean, in waterlogged seats, shreds of clothing, mangled bags and carpet scraps. Every bomb scatters tiny bits of undetonated explosive, and some of those particles penetrate porous material and lodge there, protected from the elements. Says a bomb specialist: "Nylon, porous materials, seat cushions--a lot of stuff can get in there and stick. You wash down the debris with a solvent and run it through the machines." Crash clues, in the end, could come in very small packages. Says an aviation expert: "All the significant evidence could...
...jock strap is enough to cure anyone complaining of sanity. Sure, a barber shop quartet starring disease-carrying vermin rates high on anyone's cuteness scale, but after a funk number, or a gospel number, or the film's opening chorus...one just wants to crawl under a carpet and take a quiet...
Granted, Planet Hollywood is not your average hash house. As the stars step from their limos and navigate the red carpet, the crowds erupt in full frenzy. "I absolutely have to see Bruce Willis!" shouts Arthur Signoralli, 32, a mechanic. Marjorie Bates, 61, and her husband have driven 45 miles from Columbia, Tennessee, to celebrate their 38th wedding anniversary at the big opening--outside, not at the party inside. Her long-lens camera at the ready, the excited Bates says, "I want to see everybody! My husband wants to see Cindy Crawford...