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Snow-covered streets kept several disabled Harvard students from attending classes. The students said that shuttle buses took them around the University, but blocked curb ramps prevented them from moving about yesterday...
Will it all end serenely? Of course not. Will Leo resurface, maybe to have another birthday party with Pat and Morgani, all bivouacking in their tiny van parked at a curb in Austin, living happily ever after or until arrested for loitering, whichever comes first? Hope...
...young artist named Adolf Hitler applied for admission to the Academy of Fine Arts in Vienna. He was rejected. He tried again in 1908, and was once more turned down. Living in near poverty, he struggled on as a street-curb painter in Vienna. But then his career took another turn, and when he became Fuhrer in 1934 he ordered his paintings rounded up and destroyed those he thought were forgeries. Several hundred works survived...
Diplomatic sources in Damascus said Saudi Arabia and the other council states recently persuaded Iraq to curb its air strikes on Iranian tankers...
...agreement comes not a moment too soon, because the oil industry may be facing rough times. When the Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries failed last week to reach a meaningful pact to curb production, the price of oil futures plunged from $18 per bbl. to $15.58. If prices collapse, at least Pennzoil and Texaco can start putting their resources into the businesses again instead of into the pockets of their lawyers...