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Last year, students hungering for a late-night fried-food fix could quench their cravings at the Quincy Grille. But this year, a damaged ventilation duct has forced the popular student-run social spot to turn off its fryers until next fall and halt operations this year until a less greasy menu can be devised. Contractors discovered the decay of the duct during summer renovations aimed at making Quincy the second handicapped-accessible house on campus, with Currier being the first. The vent is “broken, full of flammable grease, and just plain dangerous,” Quincy...
...Percentage pledged of $550 million in aid requested by the U.N., which last week said lack of funds might force it to halt airdrops to survivors...
...about a figure ever ready for re-examination. It's hard to forgive a man who was so obsessed with petty, vindictive politics that after the 1976 Tangshan earthquake killed hundreds of thousands of Chinese, he presided over a campaign against his rival Deng Xiaoping that demanded that rescuers halt their work to "denounce Deng on the ruins." Maybe it's time to get that fifth finger back in the air again...
...leader Trent Lott is expected to spearhead the Republican agenda in the next Congress. Since November, Lott and Clinton have several times discussed their common desire not to allow the investigations of either Gingrich or the White House to bring the substantive work of the next Congress to a halt. The big question is whether either man can control his own partisans in the House, like Democratic whip David Bonior or Republican Dan Burton, chairman of the House Government Reform and Oversight Committee, which will look into just about everything labeled Bill and Hillary. If Democrats insist on a full...
...Francis Ford Coppola hasn't forgotten him. Zoetrope, Coppola's film company, is suing Sagan and Warner Bros. over the upcoming film Contact. Coppola claims he worked with Sagan on the idea as a TV show before Sagan wrote his book. Now he wants $250,000 and a halt to further work on the film...