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...there must have been something foul lurking in the air in the visiting locker rooms. The Crimson came out and couldn't shoot the rock. It couldn't shot-put the rock...
University spokesperson Peter Costa said that foul play is not suspected, but state and local police will investigate the incident with Harvard police cooperation...
...money was appropriated, the school was built, and some good was accomplished, albeit by foul means. Justice Marshall's telling of this story could elicit laughs. But it also imprinted upon the minds of scores of clerks the degradations that the Justice -- and many millions of other blacks -- had had to endure...
...smell the difference between burnt vanilla and worn socks? If so, you might pass the test to get a new job with Japan's Environment Agency. It is recruiting human bloodhounds to sniff out sources of the foul odors that generate 10,000 complaints each year from the fastidious Japanese. Officials have used machines to track down smells, but these olfactometers are no substitute for the human nostril. "Measurement of offensive odors," says Manami Fujikura of the agency's special-pollution division, "needs expert , knowledge and technique." And a strong stomach...
Thomas said he does not suspect foul play. But the block is "a precious commodity," according to Peter J. Riley of Harvard Real Estate, the manager of the Weld renovation. The 19th century granite used to construct Weld is very hard to match, Riley said...