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Near the water, looking away onto the ocean, stood one figure, alone. She wore a bright white sweatshirt and olive shorts, and a baseball cap that made her look like a little boy. She had her hands in her pocket, meditatively. A noblelooking golden retriever lay on the sand beside her with its back straightened and its head perked up, staring into the ocean like its owner. This is the Cape Cod I have always remembered; it was serene and sublime. There is a feeling about the place that anticipates seclusion with a comfortable other...
...resulting in some 1,800 deaths. Although nothing like that calamity afflicted Europe last week--all told, the floods killed about 30 people, including only three in the Netherlands--the Dutch seemed prepared to take no more chances with the river dikes. Built of clay packed around a sand core, the structures in many parts date back to the 13th century. The village of Ochten seemed especially jeopardized as water soaked through the sand interior, releasing telltale flows of brown water...
Because several large lecture classes are held in the hall, hundreds of students wearing hard-soled shoes have tracked salt and sand across the floor...
Facing a nearly solid blockade of GOP opposition, President Clinton drew a line in the political sand and proposed increasing the minimum wage by 90 cents to $5.15 an hour over a two year period. In a Rose Garden ceremony, Clinton said that without the increase, the real buying power of the minimum wage would fall to a 40-year low next year. To counter this, Clinton proposed two hikes of 45 cents each over the current level of $4.25 an hour. But even as he released the plan, the Administration braced for what will surely be a bloody battle...
...Shakespeare, brevity may be the soul of wit, but to the Harvard Square faithful, there was nothing pointedly funny about the brief message posted on the door of Elsie's Sand-wich Shop late last month...