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Adams House is getting a brand new grease pit...
Harvard is constructing the pit on Plympton St. to comply with Massachusetts Water Resource Authorities regulations that forbid kitchen grease from entering the sewer lines...
Although construction on the grease pit has been delayed, it should be completed before residents arrive, according to Adams House Superintendent Hugh Joesph O'Conner...
...ominous signs that the bailout may be in trouble pushed public outrage over the S&L crisis to a new level of intensity. Demanded Congressman Toby Roth, a Wisconsin Democrat: "Is this a bottomless pit for taxpayers?" Said colleague Charles Schumer, a Democrat from New York: "By this point it was supposed to have been an issue for accountants and bureaucrats only. Yet it remains the country's No. 1 problem and the public's No. 1 cause for concern...
Capitol Hill Democrats are not the only ones infuriated by the pit-bull manner of House Republican whip Newt Gingrich. G.O.P. minority leader Bob Michel can scarcely hide his irritation with his feisty subordinate. In press conferences last week, Gingrich, a member of the budget-summit conference group, lashed out at "tax-and-spend Democrats" and said it was impossible to deal with them as if they were "responsible people." Michel, charged by the White House with the task of working out cooperative budget negotiations, seethed at this torching of bipartisan goodwill. Visitors to Michel's office say that when...