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...Officials seemed ill-prepared for the event even though the chemical-plant explosion had occurred more than a week earlier, on Nov. 13, some 200 miles upstream on the Songhua River. On Monday, a statement from the Harbin government attributed the surprise cutoff to "water main maintenance and repair." One day later, on Tuesday, a second statement issued on the city's official Web site acknowledged that the explosion had "perhaps polluted the water" in the river...
...acquired in adulthood: author, screenwriter, film producer, former champion swimmer, and graduate of our own dear alma mater. Consider the trajectory of Fingleton’s life and meaning is restored to the cliché title of his autobiography and its 2003 film adaptation, “Swimming Upstream...
Fingleton’s return to Cambridge last Thursday was his first since his college graduation. The occasion? A special screening of “Swimming Upstream,” followed by a Q&A session, all to raise money for the bankruptcy-threatened Brattle Street Theatre...
Fingleton went on to write and produce the comedy “Drop Dead Fred.” Later, he met up with his younger sister and co-authored the book “Swimming Upstream.” In 2003, he saw it made into the movie...
Harvard’s expansion into Riverside—a large district between Mass. Ave. and the Charles River, upstream from the River Street Bridge—has been contentious at least since the 1970 construction of Mather House and Peabody Terrace. The University’s current plans, which call for a six-story building on what was recently a parking lot across from Mather, result from a 2003 compromise between Harvard and the city...