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University administrators have taken steps to dam the river of students from private schools that has traditionally flowed into Harvard this weekend, Epps said...
...overt notice of Him. We pretended to glance over at the tree he was standing under, looking for a bird whose song we could have sworn we recognized. But under that thin, hard coat of well-bred civility, there was an unsatisfied urge to mob him. Like a dam waiting to burst, we looked around at each other, wondering who would be the first to release the floodgate...
...receives a visit from Mrs. Evelyn Mulwray, who hires him to spy on her husband, the chief engineer of Warren Power, a company which runs the water supply into the city and surrounding areas from an outlying reservoir. A new city plan proposes the building of a dam to allow more irrigation and Mulwray opposes the plan on physical principles, a view which will soon prove fatal. The thematic importance of water escalates with the drought that the region currently suffers. Water is literally life and death in Los Angeles, and to a ruthless opportunist it is a potential source...
Reporters: Hannah Bloch, Julie K.L. Dam, Tamala M. Edwards, Sinting Lai, Megan Rutherford...
Reporters: Hannah Bloch, Julie K.L. Dam, Tamala M. Edwards, Sinting Lai, Megan Rutherford...