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...journey began with a brief ferry trip across the Shatt waterway, then a hired taxi to Khorramshahr. Crossing a flat, dusty plain, laden with mud-camouflaged military vehicles, our party reached the Iraq-Iran border post of Shalamche. There, eight miles from Khorramshahr, dozens of 130mm artillery guns were hunkered down in a vast arc, pelting the Iranian-held port with booming shells...
Cambridge's luck soured--the colonists befriended the Indians, reducing the need for strong fortifications. And Winthrop apparently grew tired of the new town--one historian reports that when two walls of his home, caulked with lime instead of mud, washed out in an October rainstorm, he was unwilling to rebuild, and fled to his Boston residence...
...question the committee is asking is, 'How can we improve what's already here?' The fact is, what's here has been here forever. We need a means of addressing what's here--a Third World center," Jackson said, adding that the committee "seems to be wallowing in mud...
...Michael Smith with a little less than a minute left in the match, turkey and stuffing was all the Crimson got all afternoon. That shot, granted because of a UConn tripping infraction in the penalty area, made the score 5-1 and wiped at least a little of the mud off the collective face of the Harvard squad...
...opening night the answer was no. Dozens of critics and musicians disputed the long reverberation time, the strident brass, the puddles of aural mud. Too much depended on one's location in the auditorium. The bass was usually too strong. (That is good; after 18 years and expensive tinkering, New York's Avery Fisher Hall-the Titanic of postwar acoustics -still has a mumbling bass.) In general the sound seems too bright and unfocused. That, however, is better than starting out with a dead hall...