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Which leads to the slightest bit of introspection about the master suite: Aren't we being a little too selfish? After all, most of this added space is coming out of children's bedrooms, which are being reduced to 11-ft. by 11-ft. cubicles, the idea being to flush Junior out into the open...
During one January reading period in the early 1970s, a first-year in Matthews Hall conspired to flush all the building’s toilets at once. When the ageing plumbing exploded, he was suspended for a year. Although it’s unlikely that residents of Matthews that year have forgotten the incident, it is lost to most, buried deep in Harvard history...
...prompted Moose - and the country at large - to ask some tough questions about the role of the press in an investigation like this. Do the media hinder police efforts to locate a perpetrator, as Moose seems to believe? Or, as others attest, can regular media reports actually help flush out a criminal...
...want to force your opponent to take shots he might not want to." What motivates Europe may not be what you think. It's not revenge, though golf fans will surely bring up 1991's War by the Shore at Kiawah Island, South Carolina, where the Americans, in the flush of Gulf War bellicosity, donned camouflage caps. Or the bad manners at Brookline in 1999, when Team U.S.A. - players, wives, hangers-on - stormed the 17th green to celebrate what turned out to be the winning putt, even though Spain's José María Olazábal hadn...
...Russia's alleged Aug. 23 air raid on Georgian territory. It "has broken all limits," Georgia's President said at the funeral of Guram Otiashvili, supposedly killed in the raid on Matani village. Shevardnadze's trip to the Gorge followed his decision to send 1,000 troops to flush out the Chechen separatists Russia says are hiding there. Shevardnadze spurned Russia's suggestion of a joint operation against the Chechens: "We will solve our problems on our own, and the Pankisi Gorge will become one of the country's exemplary and stable regions." MEANWHILE The Axman Cometh Guests...