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Five U.S. towns, a 14,420-foot-high Colorado mountain and a 20-mile-long glacier in southern Alaska share Harvard's moniker...
...sewage is just one of many problems the EPA has encountered as it tries to make the Charles swimmable and fishable. An oil spill earlier this year spread more than half a mile over the Charles River. Boston University assumed full responsibility for the oil spill, which was estimated at under 1,000 gallons...
Five U.S. towns, a 14,420-foot-high Colorado mountain and a 20-mile-long glacier in southern Alaska share Harvard's moniker...
Later Thursday evening I drove us back to Connecticut. Reporters were on our property taking pictures. My mother, who was staying at our house, was scared and had called the police, who came over. They arranged to meet our car a mile from the house to escort us home. Reporters had surrounded the house and were shining lights at the car. I kept honking and driving in slowly. I called a friend who has a private security service, and he sent two guards over. Some friends had brought food and had dinner waiting on the table...
...dabbing their eyes and musing ruefully about life and death and stuff like that. It is a conclusion that may feel anticlimactic after five months in which the novel's narrator has been hinting at a more hair-raising denouement. Still, like the best popular art, The Green Mile has the courage of its cornier convictions. You might even say the palpable sense of King's sheer, unwavering belief in his tale is what makes the novel work as well as it finally does. Or maybe it is the palpable sense of his sheer need to write...