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Attention is now focusing on what caused the spill. There has been speculation that the steel of the Ashland tank may have become brittle in the bitter cold. Other possible causes: flaws in the tank's foundation, which had to support 30 million lbs., or in an underground water pipe. Ashland has also been criticized for reusing the steel. Hall admits that using old metal was one of "a few areas of questionable judgment" at issue. While not admitting liability, Hall said, "I wish our people had pursued the application more diligently...
Water backed up within the pipe and was forced through the sewage system's ejectors Saturday night. It eventually poured out of the toilets and sinks of the first-floor women's bathroom. The water swamped the carpets in the entry-way and, according to residents, seeped into both the junior common room and the small dining room...
...entry-way, releasing odors and letting frigid air into the entry. The workers pulled the carpets outside and brought in various machines and tools. The sewage problem lasted until Sunday morning, when two emergency plumbers, Tom Wiley and Charlie Mourn, sent a clearing device through the clogged pipe...
...tube led from the exhaust pipe to the front seat of the silver Toyota where an Oxford neighbor last week discovered the body of a distinguished English clergyman, Canon Gareth Bennett. The suicide of the university don and historian ordinarily might have been a sad but briefly noted counterpoint to the Christmas season. Instead, the tragedy was catapulted into prominence by the fact that only four days earlier Bennett had become embroiled in a stupendous furor in the Church of England. The uproar, it seems clear, drove him to his death...
HARVARD. The very name evokes images of brick buildings, libraries stuffed to the brim with books and four years of study in wood-panneled rooms with the smell of pipe tobacco wafting from all the professorial types gathered around campus...