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...Talk of a “Team Zebra.” Someone named “Flat Patty.” A striking explosion of banks. The closing of WordsWorth Books and impending shutdown of Brattle Theatre. Today, Harvard Square is quickly deteriorating into a den of vice, exotic livestock, and easy credit, a.k.a., New Haven. It’s long past time for some unserious reflection. Look, for example, to the charges brought against About Hair, a shady Arrow Street salon accused of providing prostitution services to students and other local residents (a sign in the front window...
...difference." The team, which lives inside Camp Courage, has built sewer, water and electrical systems, and is now helping local government officials establish and manage utilities, tax-collection, clinics and other public services. A reservist who works as a veterinarian back home is helping local herdsmen get their livestock vaccinated, and a farmer-soldier has become something like a county agricultural agent, advising on irrigation and cultivation methods...
...back to the freshman,” says Kidd.Another addition will be a café in Lamont, slated to open in the fall of 2007. Hilles, the freshman dorms and the Lamont coffee bar are all exciting developments, but in State Fair terms, if these projects were all competing livestock, Loker Pub would be the prize cow.CALLED TO THE BAROn this year’s first pub night, Loker was already pulsing with activity by 6 p.m. as skinny, artistic-looking students dressed in black ran around frantically with tape rolls hanging from their arms and HSA workers prepared...
...William Tecumseh Sherman is leading 60,000 Union troops on his devastating final campaign of the Civil War. To demoralize the South, the seditious countryside of Georgia and the Carolinas is being deliberately humbled. Sherman's foraging parties are smashing the crockery of rich planters and making off with livestock and whiskey. Hundreds of slaves--men, women and children--are deserting their defeated masters and attaching themselves as refugees to Sherman's advancing army. "On the march," one character tells us, "is the new way to live...
...Porto. But such comity was met with bafflement by some; Portuguese farmers complained that while their Spanish counterparts can profit from the recently completed Alqueva Dam in southern Portugal, close to the Spanish border, no irrigation system yet exists to get water to their own parched fields and livestock. "They are going to give the Spaniards water to irrigate their crops and then the Spaniards will sell their crops back to us," says Diogo Morgado, president of an agricultural association on the south bank of the river. In the long term, consumption will have to be scaled back if water...