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Fire officials used pumps to suck about six inches of water from the affected rooms, running hoses out of the windows and draining the water into the courtyard. Firefighters and University engineers used large fans to blow a thick black smoke out of the rooms and hallway...
...thick, befuddling fog settled over the presidential campaign in Boston - a blanket of contradictory facts and assertions that hasn't lifted yet. But two basic images loom through the haze. The first is Bush's portrait of Gore as a retrograde liberal who wants to patch up the edifice of the Great Society. The second is Gore's portrait of Bush as a faithful servant of the rich and powerful who wants to wire-transfer the surplus into the bank accounts of the upper class, spending "more money on tax cuts for the wealthiest 1%" than he does...
...types. The muteness of these things held a sort of infinite communicability and possibility within themselves; above all, they didn't seem symbolic, didn't seem to have the onus of a "deeper meaning." They were just things-things with an emphatic, almost gleeful physicality about them, suggested by thick, confident brushstrokes, black cartoon outlines and often fleshy colors...
Winning the Ivy League championship would give the Crimson an automatic berth in the NCAA Tournament in November. Despite an early--and unexpected--loss to surging Brown (8-0, 1-0), Harvard is still in the thick of the Ivy race...
...that had brought the country to chaos. Ever since, charges of torture, fraud in last April's presidential election, and gunrunning have been leveled against SIN. They culminated two weeks ago with the broadcast of a videotape, apparently leaked from Montesinos' headquarters, showing the spy chief handing over a thick packet of cash to persuade an opposition legislator to switch his allegiance to Fujimori, which...