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Will Harvard turn away prominent European professors and all scholars who enjoy open stacks? Will it begin to pour the cement for new southborough silos...
...follows that all his children are in some way weak or stunted. One of them, Tom -- in Pop's cement business -- rebels by marrying a handsome, lower- class Italian girl. It is their daughter Maggie who is trying desperately to master some object lessons during her 12-year-old summer. Though she is much brighter than friends and cousins; they are maturing faster than she; her pregnant mother dallies with an old friend; her grandfather orders her parents to move into a bigger house he has acquired for them and then has a serious stroke...
...before workers can even begin laying pipelines for the tons of seawater the fire fighters will use to cool the burning wellheads. And if the damage to the wells is sufficiently severe, fire fighters may have to drill diagonal relief wells in order to fill them with mud or cement, a capping process that can take months and cost as much as $10 million per well. By their estimates, Kuwait may still be battling oil blazes two years from...
Kuwait's Arab neighbors in the multinational force have fared better. Saudi Arabia has furnished $80 million of emergency food supplies and is bidding on contracts for cement and other building materials. Egypt expects to provide much of the labor to rebuild Kuwait. Workers there before the invasion were largely Egyptians, Palestinians and Yemenites, but the last two groups supported Saddam and won't be welcome for a long time. So the 400,000 Egyptians who fled after the invasion will probably stream back, followed by many compatriots...
...prospects for a resolution of the Palestinian problem are as dim as they have ever been. Yes, the U.S. is committed to pushing extra hard for Israeli flexibility, to pay back Arab governments for their support of the coalition and to cement American credibility in the Arab world. But even Israel's No. 1 patron cannot make Prime Minister Yitzhak Shamir budge unless he chooses to. And he does not. "We shall stand firm," says Shamir, against "attempts to establish a new pattern of Middle East arrangements...