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After arriving at South Station, the spy traveled to Harvard Square and went into one of the River Houses, and Tonis and his partner spent several frustrating hours waiting outside before realizing the suspect had escaped through the steam tunnels and disappeared...
When pro-segregation Alabama Gov. George C. Wallace spoke in Sanders Theatre in 1968 and protesting Harvard students surrounded the building, Tonis was forced to fall back on his knowledge of the same steam tunnels that had allowed the Nazi spy to elude...
...contain the epidemic and China's economy stumbles. There's little cause for optimism on either count. Citigroup economists have lowered the projected growth rate of China's economy this year from 7.6% to 6.5% as a result of the SARS scare. Meanwhile, the virus is picking up steam in the impoverished hinterlands, where public awareness of the risks of SARS is limited and hospitals lack the resources to treat an outbreak. In Shanxi province, just southwest of Beijing, eight patients have died, and overcrowded hospitals are turning patients away. Locals have begun to express openly their disgust with official...
...Quincy dining hall has suddenly become easier to navigate and slightly more welcoming. Harvard University Dining Services (HUDS) recently reorganized Quincy’s serving line, rearranged its salad bar, put Fair Trade coffee in its carafes everyday and improved its steam table displays. But HUDS admits that these changes came as tradeoffs for yet another delay of Quincy dining hall’s long-awaited renovation—formerly expected to come this summer and now slated for a year later, in the summer of 2004. Similarly, Dunster and Mather dining halls, also potentially facing long waits before overdue...
...Saddam Hussein, and by whose demise an American president would gain more. Fidel Castro, for instance, has one of the most extensive hate clubs of any person in the United States—particularly among the easily swayed voters of South Florida, a crucial state in presidential elections. Steam rolling his regime would be altogether too easy, and under new rulers his country could become as economically integrated with the U.S. as Puerto Rico. However, Comrade Castro lacks oil—and so he has not been a major focus for any U.S. government since...