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...private detectives turned it all over to police, and on March 28, 1979, at 9 a.m., homicide detective Chitwood knocked on Einhorn's door. Once inside, he headed straight for the locked closet. He pried it open with a crowbar and immediately smelled a "faint decaying smell, like a dead animal." Next he sprang the lock on the steamer trunk. The newspapers inside were dated August and September 1977. Under them was Styrofoam packing material. Chitwood scooped through it until he came to something he couldn't identify at first, and then it was clear. A hand. A human hand...
...smell emanating from the burst pipe was noticed by residents on all floors of the Adams B-entryway...
There's something magical about a new building. The smell of paint mixed with sawdust, the perfectly clean floors, the bustle of moving in, making a new space a more familiar home or office, all give me a thrill. I had the double good fortune this summer to see a new building completed and then to work in it as the interior was polished and belongings brought in. I helped in the moving of the English Department from the Warren House (formerly home of the graduate English program, soon to be home of the Women's Studies Program) to what...
...just as much grease but none of the claustrophobic charm? I don't think so. Let's leave it. It may not have butter patties on the ceilings, but probably almost as many Harvard freshmen have eaten there as they have in the former Union. Besides, I like the smell of greasy fries just about as much as the fragrance of sawdust mixed with fresh paint...
...second place is the Barker Center, which, while equally spacious and immaculate, lacks the user-friendliness of the Adams dining hall. Perhaps it's the ski lodge smell, or the endless number of office administrators smiling behind glassed-in department cubicles, or the towering front doors that refuse to open, but somehow it doesn't yet feel like home...