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AMHERST--Nearly one month after a water shortage closed the University of Massachusetts, students still are allowed to flush toilets only once every other use and are asked not to run the water when shaving...
Over the summer, the committee interviewed several University administrators, including L. Fred Jewett '57, dean of admissions and financial aid, and Henry C. Moses, dean of freshmen. "The summer was supposed to flush out broader issues--the committee must start addressing tangible details," Jackson said...
...13th novel (several were written under pen names), combines the authentic tension of the times with breathless high adventure and breathers of low comedy. Sonja's Nile-blue bisexual capers aboard her houseboat Jihan do not exactly resemble the mild erotica enacted aboard Travis McGee's Busted Flush in Florida. And one wild street donnybrook introduces a hilarious Cairene Fagin whose thievery steals more scenes than secrets...
...times the police seemed determined to intensify the violence in order to flush out the black political ringleaders, whom Prime Minister P.W. Botha branded "Communist agitators." The authorities even took the unusual step of banning all foreign journalists from the black townships, which were described as "operational zones." In areas where they were allowed to go, reporters sometimes found themselves the targets of bullying policemen...
...Flush with success, the jaded journalist tried to become the budding biographer. He went to his editor at Harper's and offered to turn the article into a book. The editor loved the idea. The people who published books at Harper's, however...