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...hardest part of the project, according to construction workers at the site, was working with the shape of the site. Shoehorning the building, which at 98,000 square feet is nearly twice the size of University Hall, into a narrow and non-square location called for a curious design...
Like any job search, Harvard will begin by advertising the vacancy in appropriate publications. The Athletic Department will then form a selection committee to narrow the applicants and give Cleary a formal recommendation...
...shrouded mountain pasture pitted with craters, past four dead horses eviscerated by scavengers, over a trampled barbed wire fence and you are in Kosovo. A thin trail leads down through light green scrub oak to a rutted dirt road, which in turn winds deeper into the cleft of a narrow valley. The mighty crash of 110-mm mortar rounds resounds from the hillsides, interspersed with the delicate crack of Kalashnikov rifles. Wisps of munitions smoke mix with the low mountain clouds spreading over the Dukadjin plains in the distance. About a mile and a half in stands a small, bullet...
...fifth inning after Princeton sophomore catcher Casey Hildreth gunned down Woodfork trying to steal second, was put on hold again in the bottom of the sixth for a 25-minute rain delay. Both teams rushed out to cover the infield with a tarp as the Crimson clung to a narrow 3-2 lead. Almost miraculously, the rain, which had been falling for several innings before the umpires stopped the game, disappeared completely and the battle for the Ancient Eight crown resumed...
...story--whose life, to a considerable extent, is the story--is a not quite middle-aged town cop named Tommy O'Connor. If what he had to tell were simply the reports of night patrols, arrests made, cars chased, shots taken or withheld, the view would be a narrow kind of truth. But O'Connor was born in town--his father Bill was the county treasurer--played Little League here, has seen jobs dry up and the downtown decay, and then, with the mixed feelings that natives reserve for too prosperous newcomers, has seen the fine old town center yuppified...