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...sewers blew the covers off of three manholes, causing the street to be cordoned off from Massachusetts Avenue to Palmer Street and forcing about a dozen local businesses to be evacuated, according to Deputy Fire Chief James F. Burns. Firemen were summoned to the scene after black smoke and flames were seen shooting up from the manholes. Several fire trucks and ambulances arrived, completely blockading the area. Policemen directed traffic and curious bystanders away from the firefighters as they battled the subterranean flames...
That year, the president suspended the entire sophomore class. He later faced a threatened boycott of commencement exercises by the seniors. When the smoke cleared from an 1841 explosion in the chapel, the words “A Bone for Old Quin to Pick” were found written on the wall. A few years later, Old Quin quit picking bones with students and stepped down. While Quincy’s tempestuous reign pushed the institution of the president even closer to the edge of the pedestal, real accountability was still nearly a century away...
...elected with the Overseers’ approval. Their consent was widely expected going into yesterday’s meeting. The overseers began arriving at Loeb House—the office of the governing boards—at around 10:30 a.m. “Look for the white smoke!” joked overseer Mitchell L. Adams ’66 as he entered. The meeting began around 11:30 a.m., and committee members opened with a discussion of the search process and Faust’s candidacy, Fergusson said. Faust arrived at about 12:50 p.m., accompanied...
...through the packed basement that is the Syndrome Club as comedian Ray Hanania takes the stage. Hanania is a Palestinian, and the Jewish audience is wondering if his jokes will strike like Molotov cocktails. "I usually perform for Arab groups in the States," Hanania says peering through the nightclub smoke at the crowd, "And this is quite a change for me... it's good to have an audience that's not hooded and shackled...
...last several tracks on the album wind into a beautiful, mellow trance until the intense, Sigur Ros-like explosion near the end of final song “SXRT.” The outburst quickly fades, though, into eerily peaceful bells that float off like a wisp of smoke. Now the wait begins once more. Bloc Party has proven itself twice and has just begun to brush the surface of its own potential with a smattering of musical genres. Okereke and the rest of Bloc Party leave you with the hope of still being able to fall into a deep...