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Citing safety concerns, Lewis issued a memo last month prohibiting any use of the roughly 1,700 fireplaces in the Houses, except those in the suites of House masters and senior tutors. Fireplaces in Yard dorms have been covered up since the early 1990s, according to Zachary M. Gingo, manager of administrative operations for Harvard Yard...
...risk is sufficiently high and the consequences of a failure so catastrophic that it is simply imprudent to continue as we have been and to hope for the best,” Lewis wrote in the memo...
...fortunate not to have had a more serious incident,” Lewis wrote in his memo...
...Lewis shrugged off the idea of fire-safety education as ultimately unhelpful in the memo...
...court was its unanimous ruling in 1954's Brown v. Board of Education that segregated public schools were unconstitutional. During Rehnquist's Senate confirmation proceedings in 1971, it emerged that in the early 1950s, while he was a clerk for Supreme Court Justice Robert Jackson, Rehnquist had prepared a memo defending the old and reviled "separate but equal" doctrine. Rehnquist insisted that he had merely been distilling Jackson's views. But the court he eventually led made job-discrimination claims harder to win and rejected the use of statistics showing that the death penalty in Southern states was imposed...