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...SCENE Bok was personally humiliated. His enormous university, at the height of its grandest celebration, was being held captive by 68 scruffy partisans. The former Harvard Law School dean--who once defused a protest there with bags full of coffee and donuts--was reduced to a state of helplessness in front of the most important alumni and faculty of the University...
...which first began in 1982. "So I took a train to get to this one." Smiling, Grechko paused for a moment to look away from the woman, as though he did not understand her. "I know," he said finally. "I am also afraid to fly. I am afraid of height." Again that smile, and the woman -- "Oh, c'mon, a cosmonaut?" -- couldn't have been more pleased...
...Wasserman development has also failed in its application for special permission to raise part of the proposed building above the permitted height for its site. Alleging that the developer misrepresented his intentions in this application, the city commissioner of building and housing revoked the building permit early this month...
Minor renovations due to start this week will include replacing roof slates broken by snowfalls, polishing the wood and brass fixtures and "high dusting," that is, professional cleaning and oiling the walls up to a height of 32 feet, said HRE building manager Bob Hart...
...wonders of obesity, unable to stand excepting on all fours." He then cajoled the large lady into giving him permission to measure her and dutifully reported the results: "Round arm, 1 ft. 11 in.; chest, 4 ft. 4 in.; thigh, 2 ft. 7 in.; calf, 1 ft. 8 in.; height...