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...Harvard is no longer a proposal; it is now a fact. Several details remain to be hammered out, but its appearance only one year after a committee was formed to investigate the possibilities of a campus Third World center is remarkable by Harvard's clock, which often runs on Glacial Standard Time...
...Harvard is no longer a proposal; it is now a fact. Several details remain to be hammered out, but its appearance only one year after a committee was formed to investigate the possibilities of a campus Third World center is remarkable by Harvard's clock, which often runs on Glacial Standard Time...
...before they can, Healey leaves Slade holding a smoking pistol and a murder rap in the wake of a saloon brawl. End of partnership. Slade settles down to homestead the secret valley. Thirty years later Healey ruthlessly claims a lake of high-grade petroleum that lies beneath the glacial moraine...
...exile. A compelling example is Eugenia Ginzburg's description of solitary confinement in a maximum-security prison in Yaroslavl. A former schoolteacher and an ardent Communist, Ginzburg was arrested in 1937, like millions of other innocent citizens caught up in Stalin's Great Terror. Lying in a glacial underground punishment cell, where rats scuttled past her face, she asked herself...
...night. Some of these men have now been fingerprinted, but no actual arrests are believed to be imminent. "We keep talking to the government about the case," said a U.S. embassy official, "and we consider it very much open." But he admitted that the pace of the progress is "glacial...