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...fire, which fire officials say started on a desk in the basement of the Gibbs lab building, was quickly contained by the Cambridge Fire Department (CFD) before it could do extensive damage to the building...

Author: By Garrett M. Graff, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Police Suspect Arson in Wolcott Gibbs Lab Fire | 11/1/1999 | See Source »

...fire, however, proved easy to contain and extinguish. CFD reported that the fire damaged a set of architectural drawings on a desk. Most of the damage was either smoke- or water-related...

Author: By Garrett M. Graff, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Police Suspect Arson in Wolcott Gibbs Lab Fire | 11/1/1999 | See Source »

...Rodham using his pull to line his own pocket? Rodham says he had no money invested in IBN, although he was paid by Prescott, a Florida hotel owner, for his work on the company's behalf. "I called the Russia desk at the White House, at the NSC, as anybody in this country can do," said Rodham in an interview. But is it possible his request was treated differently from the way it might have been if his name were, say, Jones? Indeed, another prominent American working in Russia relations, who asked not to be named, made a similar call...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Are Hillary's Brothers Driving Off Course? | 11/1/1999 | See Source »

...think Jane Clayson was just another ambitious young woman who landed a job in New York City--scrambling to find an apartment, deposited (temporarily) by her employer in what is, truth be told, a pretty crappy office. Inoffensive museum posters hang on the wall; the painted metal and laminate desk is bare of much but a Poland Spring bottle and a phone; a generic screen saver plays across the monitor of a generic PC. In the middle of an interview, her phone rings. And rings. She rises apologetically and answers it herself. "It's what I'm used to doing...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Television: Battle Of the Morning People | 11/1/1999 | See Source »

...room to change into shorts and a T-shirt, fill up a water bottle and walk over to the field with Stevens. As they were leaving, Stevens went to grab his Harvard I.D. card from his wallet but his wallet was gone. It had been in his desk in the common room. "I looked around the room--I thought maybe I had left it somewhere or misplaced it. But then I thought I'd check that garbage again." Rubin left the suite while Stevens was still looking for his wallet, "worried about my teammate, but looking ahead to the game...

Author: By Ben C. Wasserstein, | Title: Fifteen Minutes: Waking Up to Crime in Matthews Hall | 10/28/1999 | See Source »

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