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Dozens of tenants in a Harvard-owned building on Ware St. complained to Harvard Real Estate (HRE) about low heat levels during last week's cold snap, and some of the residents charged that University workmen lowered the heat as part of an ongoing battle to install new thermopane windows in the building...
...whiteness through discipline and excellence. He is a martinet who addresses his recruits as "shiftless lazy niggers" and hounds one guitar-strumming vagabond singer, sweetly played by Larry Riley, to his death. "They ought to work you niggers till your legs fall off," he screams at his charges, meaning "snap to and measure up," the one-line basic English catechism of the U.S. regular Army sergeant. Waters does not hate his men. He simply, heartrendingly, knows that a black may snap to, and yet never measure up, in a white man's universe...
...slump will slow to 2.2% during the first three months of 1982. Then, by the second quarter of the year, the plunge should have leveled off, with no more than about 0.2% of decline in G.N.P. In the second half of the year, the economy is expected to snap back and grow at an average annual rate...
...Children" who presoak his brain with homilies and then scrub it clean of all hope, feeling, self. Although it has plenty of impact, Ticket is often too busy being outraged to bother with niceties of characterization and plot. (Just how does David become converted? At what point does he snap out of it?) And so it ignores the central dilemma: that kidnaping an adult, however pure the motive or dear the victim, is against the law. Like a strident TV-news exposé, Ticket aims for the jugular instead of the mind-Geraldo Rivera moviemaking...
Tome McLaughlin, for instance, is generally considered the more emotional and outspoken of the pair, at least during games. "Frankie's emotion is more inner," Tom says, "He's much more logical than I am. I can snap." Frank agrees: "He shows his anger a lot more. If I get upset I don't show it as much...I think it's silly to get upset...