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...earth shakes and rolls under my feet," shrugs novelist Wallace Stegner, a 40-year resident of Los Altos Hills. "It's never particularly alarmed me." Brokers insist that San Francisco's booming real estate market has not subsided. "Obviously the quake was a drawback," concedes Katherine August of First Republic Bancorp, which specializes in loans for luxury homes. "But I don't think it will have a lasting effect on the market. We closed one deal the day after the quake." Says pollster Mervin Field: "Sure it shook people up. But look at the World Series game that was interrupted...
...house system is important. Few things amuse me as much as Yardlings who insist that house life doesn't matter. (Especially when those same students quake at the prospect of living in Adams of Eliot.) Like it or not, Harvard's campus-wide social life is insignificant in relation to house life...
...carcasses has turned up no unusual concentrations of toxic substances in the pelicans. One wild theory is that fishermen may have poisoned the birds so that fewer of the lake's trout will be eaten by them. Wildlife biologists scoff at such speculation, and city water officials insist that there is nothing in the water to harm humans. But until the Great White Pelican Mystery is solved, worry and rumor, unlike the birds, seem certain to thrive...
...when Colonel Muammar Gaddafi was the villain of the month. Although Gaddafi and his family were known to be living in the barracks and although the attack killed many soldiers and some civilians -- including, Gaddafi claimed, his 18-month-old adopted daughter -- American officials were at pains to insist that they did not intend to kill Gaddafi himself. President Reagan said, "We weren't . . . dropping these tons of bombs hoping to blow that man up" -- although "I don't think any of us would have shed tears if that had happened." A senior White House official said, "We were showing...
...while Pilbeam and the other four administrators on the committee insist that they are merely gathering information in hopes of bolstering the case for an increased faculty, they do say that a decision will be made in the next year about whether to launch a major curriculum overhaul...