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...offender of the night was neither Starker nor the HRO, but a Sanders Theater radiator which released a cacophonous blast of steam during the contemplative, yet simple adagio ma non troppo of the Dvorak. As the heating unit entered the final stage of its five-minute protest, Starker remarked, "Seldom have I been so rudely interrupted. Perhaps this indicates that Harvard needs a concert hall." That conclusion is indisputable, in light of the radiator interruption and the police sirens and car horns which consistently violated passages played at or below the mezzo-piano level...
...lives quietly in a modest apartment in northwest Washington with his wife Mary, a former Pentagon clerk. They have two children: David, 18, a student at Harvard, and Mary Frances, 25, who teaches high school in Washington. To keep his weight down, Albert jogs and swims. He is seldom seen on the cocktail circuit, devotes himself to his family and his work, and his strongest expletive is "jeepers creepers...
...result is that local politicians cannot appeal to students without antagonizing residents. The town-gown split is very real in Cambridge, and efforts to bridge it seldom meet with success. The student community is simply isolated from the other populations within the city. Politicians commonly use Harvard as a target in order to gain support from the community. Witness the proposals of such politicians as Al Vellucci, who a few years back wanted to pave over Harvard Yard and make it a huge parking...
...into huge waiting trucks. The process is so much cheaper and easier than deep-mining that more than 50% of the U.S.'s coal comes from surface mines. Trouble is, in only about half the strip-mining operations is the ravaged land filled in-and even then it seldom can be returned to productive use for years...
Woodley is not a great writer and does not risk saying more. His prose is sometimes clumsy, seldom inspirational. But Team, like all teams, draws strength from its individuals...