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...fade in to Sunday, Feb. 11, 1979, the evening of the most widely publicized programming matchup in TV history. On CBS: a rare telecast of Gone With the Wind. On NBC: the TV debut of One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest. On ABC: a much hyped TV movie, Elvis! Some network programmers grumble that this costly confrontation amounts to a three-way kamikaze mission. But it draws the crowds. Elvis! wins a 40% share of the viewing audience, Gone With the Wind gets 36%, and Cuckoo's Nest pulls in 32%. Does that add up to more than...
...Boston harbor mess indeed predates Dukakis. A system largely designed in the 1950s to give rudimentary treatment to sewage simply could not cope with rapid growth in the Boston area, and the Metropolitan District Commission, charged with maintaining the sewage system, was a nest of political cronies. "It was a place that employed everybody's cousin," recalls former Republican Governor Francis Sargent. As early as 1972, Sargent had committed the state to cleaning up the harbor, but had to fight a recalcitrant MDC every step...
...after observing a parade of cars making brief nocturnal stops at his posh hilltop home, Police Investigator Jenny Jones asked the local refuse collector to turn over the brown plastic trash bags in front of the house. Clawing through the contents with rubber gloves, officers uncovered a rich nest of drug-related paraphernalia: razor blades, straws containing cocaine residue, and phone bills listing calls to people with drug records. Based on this evidence, the police obtained a warrant to search the house, found cocaine and hashish inside, and arrested Greenwood. He protested the original warrantless investigation of his trash bags...
Students of money management are rarely allowed to practice with other people's nest eggs. But Ohio State University has decided to entrust students in Finance 723, Advanced Investment Management, with a chunk of the real thing: $5 million of the school's $245 million endowment...
...Gladys P. Gifford, a Coalition member, called Harvard's decision a "tragic response for the neighborhood, and one that would spoil its own nest...