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...mail from Assistant to the Master Larry J. Peterson shortly before 6 p.m. on Feb. 8. The e-mail, with the subject line “URGENT,” announced “major pipe back-up problems” and urged residents not to “flush your toilet until it is announced otherwise.” According to Quincy House Building Manager Ronald W. Levesque, a blockage in Quincy’s pipe system had existed for months. But it was unlikely to be detected until it ultimately backed up to the point of flooding, which...
...Russians Are Back In the mid-1990s, in the first flush of economic and political freedom, you couldn't walk into a high-end store in Davos without tripping over some Russian businessman's "executive assistant," usually decked out in a sumptuous fur coat...
...want to know what it is. But you know what we’re talking about, and it’s gross. By any means necessary, be it the planting of some fragrant trees or the reworking of Harvard’s sanitation system (and green flush handles do not constitute reworking), the removal of this odor is imperative. River-dwellers can do without this daily olfactory assault...
...latest push to gain control of the city, U.S. forces man what amount to a string of inner-city garrisons across town, offering training and support to small groups of Iraqi police who warily walk the surrounding streets. The patrols rarely venture far. The blocks around the compounds are flush with insurgents who watch the movements of Iraqi security forces and U.S. troops, waiting to attack at unpredictable moments...
...fates for a better life, and a hesitant supplication to purchase. Sometimes, there's a toddler asleep atop the cart, his or her head pillowed perhaps on a copy of Angkor - Cambodia's Wondrous Khmer Temples. Upward of a million visitors a year - backpackers, pensioners, Tomb Raider aficionados, newly flush Eastern Europeans and large groups of Buddhists from Japan and Korea - come to gawp at Angkor Wat. Looming, enduring and vast, it is just one of a host of exquisite temples in the area. But by the end of the day, both culture vultures and common-or-garden tourists...