Word: summered
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Across a parcel of scorched landscape, a pair of male ground squirrels are enacting an annual ritual. Chirping madly, the rivals dash at each other, tails raised, seeking to establish hegemony over the turf that will become a summer home for mate and offspring. The battle is fierce but short; the loser scuttles off into the sagebrush. The victor preens on hind legs, surveying a domain where shoots of bluebunch wheatgrass, Idaho fescue and larkspur have begun to sprout. It is springtime in the Rockies, and Yellowstone National Park is emerging from hibernation -- and recovering from the most troubled time...
...Police Review and Advisory Board had hoped to hold a hearing before student witnesses leave Cambridge for the summer and Williams graduates, said William R. Golon, the executive director and chief investigator of the board...
...said that the board's schedule made it unlikely that it would be able to discuss the case before students leave for the summer. Several of the nine civilian witnesses with whom Golon has spoken live out of state, he said...
Williams said yesterday that he would prefer to hold a hearing at the end of June, rather than during the fall. Because the bus driver, Geoffrey J. McQuilken '91, will be in Cambridge over the summer, Williams said he believed there would be enough evidence to prove his side of the case...
Golon said that if a hearing is held over the summer, he will probably rely on taped statements from eyewitnesses who are unable to attend. But he said this method could significantly weaken the case...