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...soon as staff found the sink clogged with scraps of food and plastic wrapping, a plumbing company was called. Besides the dishwashing area, no other parts of the dining hall were affected. Many students said their afternoons were not disrupted by the 1:15 pm closure, but Eliot House Master and Harvard College Professor Lino Pertile joined late lunchers in the Kirkland dining hall. The dining hall opened for dinner as usual last night. The plumbers used a “snake” or “plumber’s friend,” a metal cable inserted...
Take Anita Blake. Many have. She's a vampire hunter who fell for Richard, a werewolf, slept with wereleopards Micah and Nathaniel and then bedded Jean Claude, the master vampire of St. Louis, Mo. When vertical, she runs around like a paranormal Kay Scarpetta, keeping her fanged friends out of trouble. "Anita knew Richard was a monster, but he was no rapist," writes Laurell K. Hamilton, Blake's creator. Hamilton, currently writing the 15th novel in the series (the last four were New York Times best sellers), says the secret to her vampires' popularity is that "they're people first...
...Hackensack, N.J. Renowned for integrating the conga into jazz, he decided to become a musician after hearing a Dizzy Gillespie recording featuring Cuban percussionist Chano Pozo. In 1961 Barretto recorded the boogaloo tune El Watusi, among the few Latin jazz songs to hit the Billboard charts. Named a Jazz Master by the National Endowment for the Arts, he formed a decades-long partnership with the Latin pop label Fania, where he popularized salsa music...
...appears the student was intoxicated before arriving at the dance,” the master of Winthrop House, Stephen P. Rosen, wrote in an e-mail...
...Kirkland House Co-Master Tom Conley set the mood for the evening when he introduced Mansfield to the roughly 50 attendees of the Senior Common Room (SCR) event...