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Every Cantab fondly recalls, for example, when the City tried to pave Harvard Yard; or when some local politician wanted to turn the Lampoon Castle into a public latrine. Legend also holds that it took the Cambridge Fire Department 45 minutes to respond to a fire in the steeple of Memorial Hall, located about 50 yards from the firehouse...
...doctors and theologians debated the ethics of Copeland's actions, Creighton's mother and sister made their feelings clear. They thanked the doctor and the hospital staff for doing "everything within their human power to give him a life" and expressed the hope that the Phoenix heart experiment "would pave the way" for other heart patients in need. "We are thankful," they said, "that it was available...
...proud of our unique culture. And we are also proud of our predecessors on the Harvard campus, whose struggles helped pave the way for our presence at this institution. As a measure of our appreciation and as a means of stressing the need for continued support among Blacks as well as other facets of the community, the Black Alumni Weekend has been created. I don't feel it is ethnocentric at all to encourage, entertain, and be inspired by men and women who have more experience than I concerning the construct of a cosmopolitan community. We are trying to engage...
...contest. Said a U.S. official: "We maintained a hands-off policy. But anyone who knows anything at all about Grenada knew that a moderate party was the best bet. What everybody wanted was a government that was neither leftist nor a brutal, corrupt, fruitcake regime that would pave the way for another radical takeover...
...Coalition members and other area residents have stepped up their efforts at getting a full range of tests in the dump this fall. They said they hope to discover which chemicals are present and in what quantity before Grace and Hines Industrial--Grace's partner in the building venture--pave over and build there...