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...Qaeda dirty bomb, no chemical plant disaster, no towering inferno. None of the worst-case scenarios imagined by tabloid journalists and military planners ahead of the U.K.'s first fire-services strike in 25 years came to pass. But as the 48-hour shutdown ended, there was no collective sigh of relief either. With the Fire Brigades Union (FBU) planning an eight-day walkout starting Nov. 22 - and two more of equal duration in the run-up to Christmas - there will be plenty of opportunities for those scenarios to play out. Ironically, the absence of a major disaster last week...
Those who received the Harvard University Police Department’s (HUPD) first community advisory of the year in an e-mail yesterday can breathe a sigh of relief...
...semester. Churchgoers will pray, computer geeks will hack and others will simply hope for the best. That same day, undergraduates at Harvard College might be asked by a relative or a friend what courses they plan to take the next semester. Most of us will simply reply with a sigh of relief, “I’m not sure...
...frenzy, feasting on the first-term Senator's ethical woes. When Torricelli addressed Hispanics in Newark last week, the crowd swooned to his riffs on taxes and jobs. After the speech, a TV reporter asked only about scandal. "There are real issues," said Torricelli with a sigh a bit later, sipping a skim mocha latte in a nearby Starbucks. Then his cell phone rang with another reporter calling about ethics...
...Frenzies of Sweeny’ from the long poem by Seamus Heaney. At the end of the performance I was naked in the bottom of the Adams House Pool, on top of a pedestal, illuminated from beneath.” Nash pauses and lets out an amused sigh. “I look up and see my mother, Seamus Heaney and my father all sitting in a row about four feet away,” he says. “When you are hanging there...squatting, naked...you start to wonder if it was such a good idea...