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...just because an organization has been chartered does not mean that it will survive, as evidenced by La Organizacion Boricuia (La O). Though supported by the Harvard Foundation, La O has collapsed due to "internal problems with themselves and perhaps a little apathy," according to Marina Santini '98. "It's hard to keep up with grants, communication with other groups, and activities." Santini says, especially if potential members are already dedicating their time and energy to other Latin American organizations. Santini emphasizes that "La O is the only Puerto Rican group on campus," but even with this difference...
...build on filled land. Such areas are subject to a phenomenon called liquefaction. Quake vibrations rupture the surface, allowing water-saturated soil to rise up and turn what seemed to be solid ground into something like a quaking bowl of Jell-O. In both Kobe and the Marina district of San Francisco, site of the worst damage from the 1989 Loma Prieta quake, liquefaction proved disastrous; the same could happen in the Oakland area across San Francisco Bay. Warns Ross Stein, Geological Survey physicist in Menlo Park, California: ``Kobe is almost a dress rehearsal for an earthquake on the Hayward...
...Marina Soler, manager of the Harvard Student Telephone Office, says the phone mix-up is due to "cross-wiring." Some phone lines are completely inactive. Others are active, but miswired...
...Security and vigilance have been heightened in the weeks since three harbor ferries were hijacked by Cubans hoping to reach Florida. Police and civilian militia patrolled the docks, and all around the bay shipping companies had taken on armed guards to keep their vessels from being stolen. At Hemingway Marina, which plays host to the annual Hemingway deep-sea fishing tournament, the tourist boats were under guard by police...
Moscow has not always been this way. In 1916, a year before communism's whirlwind transformed Russia into the Soviet Union, the poet Marina Tsvetayeva described her native city as a vast hostelry of "forty times forty" churches, where small pigeons rose above the golden domes and the floors below were polished by kisses of the faithful. Under the Soviet regime, with its Stalinist housing bunkers and oppressive military bearing, the city became a grimmer place, but one that was anchored, orderly, predictable, even if, to many outsiders, drab and downcast. By 1976, the British journalist Geoffrey Bocca could describe...