Word: summer
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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President Clinton's controversial decision to grant clemency to 16 Puerto Rican prisoners this summer has left few people satisfied. Opponents of the offer have condemned it as a sign to the rest of the world that the United States is soft on terrorism, mocked it as a political ploy designed to win Puerto Rican votes in Hillary Rodham Clinton's upcoming Senate run in New York and labeled it an affront to the integrity of the American justice system. Meanwhile, many supporters of clemency were displeased with the conditions attached to it, which they considered excessive, and angered...
Alpert says these visitors are standard American cockroaches. They gain access to dorm rooms, he said, in the summer months when shower pipes are dry and the roach can climb up through the drain...
Usually, plumbing systems contain a "water trap," a kind of moat where water collects in a curved pipe. Normally, cockroaches can't cross it, but in the summer months the water evaporates and the roaches can get inside...
...visiting student from an area college who asked not to be identified said she was somewhat disappointed that the severity of the shortage was not made clearer when she called over the summer...
...stocked up [on the plastic ones] because I know they run out," Jon G. Brinton '01 said. "I put them in storage over the summer...