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...Albert was truly interested in trash-removal,” Loader said. “He was like a vacuum cleaner snarfing up french fries at the Grille and things dropped in the Courtyard...
...pressing things, so my dad’s friend had an antique press he gave me, and we went out apple picking around Harvard, Mass.,” Morange says. Morange and his friends, fellow competitors Danny Koski-Karell and Eric Brown, pressed the fresh apples in the Kirkland courtyard, and then Morange got to work. “A lot of it depends on the year, the pectin, the weather,” he says. Kirkland House also figured into the name. Rather than promulgating any kind of belief in states’ rights or the South?...
...which, in the suites, the students could express their tasteful creativity (Carlhian said he envisioned “tapestries”). In the public areas, various fine arts would be exhibited, including a giant painting of camels in the dining area and a statue of a lion in the courtyard. Harvard, however, pulled out of its commitment to loan Mather the fine art. The rest is naked history...
...been a long time since anyone in this oasis village near the Afghan border had received a letter from America. So, quite a crowd gathered when the Pakistani postman strolled into the dusty courtyard of Mohamed Azeem's house and delivered the letter. Azeem didn't know anyone in America. The envelope had a pretty stamp depicting Mt. McKinley, and an unusual return address: Detainee, JBC, 160 Camp X- Ray. Even more mysterious, the missive bore the name of Azeem's son, Issa Khan, given up for dead months ago by his family...
...recognized Issa's writing, and his sad, ashen eyes lit up. "Kind Father, Mother & Sisters," the letter read. "I'm in the United States. I've been arrested. I hope I'll be released soon, since I'm innocent." Azeem shouted for his wife, Sardara, who tottered into the courtyard, disrupting the chickens; racked by grief, she'd suffered several seizures since their son went missing. "Issa's alive!" Azeem cried, adding with bewilderment: "But he's in America...