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They represent the ultimate urban horror. Anonymous, malevolent packages planted by any of the thousands of subway riders and set to kill huge numbers of passersby indiscriminately. The prospective victims are temporarily captives in a subterranean steel and concrete execution chamber, and they could have died by simply by drawing a breath. The dead would have been selected by sheer chance, depending on petty details like which commuter was on schedule and who had dawdled over breakfast and taken a later train...
Terry V. Castro, producer of baked goodness, invited me in. I was flattered to be one of the select few deemed worthy of entering the subterranean world of Harvard Dining Services. After showcasing all the equipment, Terry nurtured my ego back to health with fresh donuts...
...assignments may find Cybersmith an unsatisfying study break site. If you just want to relax, the sound of clicking keyboards may drive you back to Algiers; if economy is what you're after, stick to ABP. But for Harvardians curious about the net and frightened by the stark and subterranean Science Center, Cybersmith aims to please. It's driven by the profit motive, after all, and you certainly won't get kicked motive, after all, and you certainly won't get kicked out for ingesting caffeine while you netsurf away...
Despite guarded U.S. support for Yeltsin's right to put down the Chechnya rebellion,TIME State Department correspondent J.F.O. McAllisterreports that "subterranean turmoil" over how to handle the Russian leader is now festering in the Clinton Administration's ranks. At State, he says, several officials argued unsuccessfully for cancellation of a scheduled meeting in Geneva next week between Secretary of State Warren Christopher and Russian Foreign Minister Andrei Kozyrev to discuss the future of NATO. McAllister says: "Here's a government (Russia) that's committing fairly substantial human rights abuses, and that's not something that Christopher can easily ignore...
Separately, Gingrich learned that the White House had launched a subterranean assault on another G.O.P. budget proposal. Treasury Secretary-to- be Robert Rubin was talking privately to Wall Street economists about the dangers of the Republican plan to change the government's accounting rules to make tax cuts appear less expensive. A negative reaction by the financial markets could discredit many of the Republican taxing and spending plans. Typically, Gingrich's planned response to Rubin was a counterassault, inviting 25 top Wall Street economists to Washington to suggest they were "being stupid" to buy the White House line...