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...history of business in Cambridge is to overrun the neighborhood," but Spartichino stressed that "a Kendall Square type atmosphere is not wanted here. We prefer quiet at night and non-existence on weekends...
...Steinbeck was crisscrossing the United states doing research for a travelogue, he brought along his dog Charly, figuring that the scruffy little canine would give him something to talk about with strangers he met on the road. Last Saturday night, I took the #1 bus from Harvard Square--already overrun with braided leather belts and the L.L. Bean shoes that Andover kids call "mocs"--to Central square. Because I don't have a dog and because it would have been too embarassing to bring my bowl of goldfish onto the bus, I decided that I would pick up some sort...
Some cases are literally overrun by attorneys. An example is the Stringfellow Acid pits in Riverside County, California: a 1983 EPA lawsuit -- followed by a civil suit by 3,800 plaintiffs -- targeted more than 200 prps (potentially responsible parties), including McDonnell Douglas, Rockwell International, Northrop Corp. and Weyerhaeuser. In the early stages of the legal battle in the mid-1980s, Riverside County lacked a courthouse that could accommodate the burgeoning stream of lawyers. An old building was converted to a courtroom just to house them. Although a number of corporate defendants have settled with plaintiffs, the site has never been...
...spite of the impression created by images of levees and houses being overrun by rising waters, the mounds of earth and rock built to contain the Mississippi around population centers have by and large worked. At week's end, along 600 miles of swollen, surging river, most major levees continued to hold...
This is the key to understanding the amazing transmutation of cold war and Gulf War doves into Bosnia hawks: their deep suspicion of motives of national interest. In a recent debate, Anthony Lewis called George Bush a "gutless wimp" for letting the Serbs overrun Bosnia. It was pointed out that the gutless wimp took half a million Americans to war to liberate Kuwait. "Yes," replied Lewis triumphantly, "he did because of oil, O-I-L, the famous three- letter word." Any wimp, you see, can go to war for some vital national interest. Real men go to war for reasons...