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...returning veterans flood college campuses across the country, Harvard enrolls the largest number of students in its 311-year history. College enrollment hits 5,600 as the House feel the squeeze of an all-time record influx. Housing is cramped, and the College again resorts to cots in the Indoor Athletic Building...
Armstrong was affiliated with Briggs Hall while she was at Radcliffe, but was relegated for a time to off-campus housing in her first year because the flood of returning veterans placed a premium on dorm space...
...Quincy, where President Dole had gone to comfort victims of the Mississippi flood, it is undisputed that Heather May Hamm, 4, whose family's home was lost, had been instructed by White House staff members to say to the President, "We thank you, President Dole, for your love and prayers" and said instead, "I have to make tinkle...
DAMAGE ASSESSMENT Most of the property damage caused by last week's deadly tornadoes in Oklahoma and Kansas should be covered by standard homeowners' policies. But if you live in a flood- or hurricane-prone area, you can't rely on that kind of relief in the event of a natural disaster. Standard policies, you see, don't typically cover flood damage. Indeed, less than a quarter of the 10 million households near the coasts that are most at risk this summer have additional, government-backed flood insurance, which costs about $300 a year (for information, call...
...most deeply troubling and perhaps the best of the stories in the new collection, "People in Hell Just Want a Drink of Water," tells of the way a family of cowboy brothers viciously castrate a severely crippled man: Proulx comments, "Only earth and sky matter. Only the endlessly repeated flood of morning light. You begin to see that God does not owe us much beyond that." The reader should be grateful that Proulx does not often drop into this kind of openly reflective tone: she is at her best when carefully texturing rural life, when she tells her stories without...