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...Evans has suffered her share of improbable bad luck over her long soap- opera career. These days, though, her troubles have become increasingly unmanageable. Since last winter the virtuous psychiatrist, portrayed by Deidre Hall, on nbc's Days of Our Lives, has been possessed not by run-of-the-mill lust but rather by the devil himself. With eyes that turn a yield-sign yellow and a voice that sinks deep and demonic, Dr. Evans has misbehaved all over the fictional town of Salem. So far, she has burned down a church, unleashed a swarm of vicious bees and morphed...
...that the words "reading period" should bear absolutely no resemblance to their actual meaning. It used to be that a Harvard reading period was a time for students to read additional, enjoyable books their professors assigned; the purpose was for students to take a break from run-of-the-mill coursework. As nice as that may sound, that time is long gone. During modern reading periods, students not only do not read for enjoyment, they don't read...
...friend was walking past the back gate of Quincy House on Mill Street, at around 3 a.m., and believed she was being followed. When she looked around, but no emergency phone. As it turned out, she ran and was fine. But it's disturbing to know that in the middle of the campus, when someone was in danger, no help was to be found...
...second passage he read, called "The Last Mill Picnic," described the last all-Black mill picnic in his town and the mixed emotions that accompanied...
Really? Here a thoughtful Martian might wonder, "These must be the children. Where are the adults?" As he knows, the Clean Water Act has been a visible, undeniable success. Everyone benefits every day. Streams that were murky with mill waste and untreated sewage now are clear and swimmable. No matter; because oil, gas and real estate interests pleaded inconvenience, water-quality standards are to be lowered. Protection of wetlands, which nourish marine life, is to be cut at a time when fish-producing U.S. coastal ecosystems are nearly barren...