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...Interesting. My first year as a member of one of the clubs I worked dorm crew, cleaning toilets for my extra pocket money, some of which I allotted at the account-busting rate of about 60 dollars a month to my club. One year the club roof sprung a leak. Where did they come up with the six grand needed to fix it? And who paid for the food served at the dinners, or the electric bill, or the City of Cambridge land taxes, which have tripled in the past five years? Who paid for the glass panes that...
...leak came at a time when Dukakis was urging rivals in the then-crowded Democratic field to wage positive campaigns. Sasso acknowledged his role in the episide only after Dukakis said he did not believe his campaign was responsible for distributing the tapes...
...calm returned to the capital, observers tried to piece together how the coup attempt had developed. Informed sources said the plotters contacted at least one high-ranking U.S. military officer before the attempt and originally intended to move against Noriega on Wednesday night. Perhaps fearful that their plans might leak, they struck in the morning instead. But the hastily planned attempt was a study in failure...
...allege that he accepted free entertainment from bidders who eventually won. Officials of Southern Bell, for example, reportedly regaled him five times at restaurants in Atlanta and Washington. But investigators are not convinced that a few free meals explain Soni's behavior. Some believe that since Soni seemed to leak information on an equal-opportunity basis, he may have been trying, in a perverse fashion, to save the Federal Government money by manipulating all of the potential contractors...
...just about every other species of juvenile thug. Pot smoke blew out of broken windows. Graffiti marred the walls. Doors were damaged. Teachers were afraid to come to work. Clark, a former Army Reserve sergeant, took quick action. He chained doors against pushers and threatened any strays that might leak through with a baseball bat, a 36-in. Willie Mays Big Stick that still rests in a corner of his office. Bellowing through the bullhorn and the school's p.a. system, he banned loitering, mandated keep-to-the-right and keep-moving rules for the corridors...