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...correct answer is that this isn't a hypothetical scenario. Last spring, Harvard administrators did find out that the tap water had been contaminated with high levels of carcinogenic trihalomethanes for 16 months. But rather than inform the community immediately, officials waited for four weeks to make any official announcement. (They claimed that the information was too "alarming" to tell students immediately...
...students. The only change is that Jewett says he has been "assured that if there are any problems we'll be notified." He believes that last year's water incident happened because the "environmental people just hadn't considered--as much as they might have--the necessity to inform the community...
UNLIKE the global environmental crises that consume so much of activists' attention, campus environmental secrecy has a simple solution: Put a student on the Environmental Health and Safety Committee. This student would attend every meeting, ask the right questions and inform the campus press when necessary. I have no doubt that many environmental activists on campus could serve this role well...
...tossed off the Los Angeles police force in 1981 for alleged ties to prostitutes and drug dealers, had told me that he might be able to arrange a meeting with church boss David Miscavige. Just hours before the lunch, the church's "national trial counsel," Earle Cooley, called to inform me that I would be eating alone...
...book records one late-night phone conversation between characters named Lily and Molly that demonstrates the bizarreness beneath their average, middle-class appearances. Molly calls to inform Lily of the death of their mutual friend Inez, who was found standing up, arms outstretched, wearing nothing but a pair of galoshes...