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...Officers dispatched to a report of a man sleeping in the basement of a building on Harvard property. Stephanie Webster, 29, of Belmont was field interviewed, arrested for an outstanding warrant, and charged with trespassing and improper use of a credit card...
Just ask President Bush. Or the municipal leaders of Webster, N.Y. In March the tiny village (pop. 2,500) just south of Lake Ontario placed ads in the Wall Street Journal and the New York Times offering to sell 2 million gal. a day of "crystal clear well water." That bit of enterprise earned an icy reprimand from Michigan Governor John Engler, former chairman of the Council of Great Lakes Governors, who reminded village officials that the eight Great Lakes Governors were "required to approve all diversions and exports of water" from the U.S. section of the Great Lakes basin...
Opponents say it's not the profit they object to but the precedent Webster's plan would set. The Great Lakes basin contains 18% of the world's freshwater, though that doesn't necessarily mean there is water to spare. In a 1999 report, the U.S.-Canada International Joint Commission warned that levels in lakes Michigan and Huron had dropped 22 in. from the previous year--"the most precipitous drop in recorded history," says the IJC's Frank Bevacqua--and last year the U.S. National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration predicted that levels would fall an additional...
...third on the eleventh-hour discovery of some 4,000 pages of documents that had not been handed over to defense lawyers for Oklahoma City bomber Tim McVeigh - were ordered by Attorney General John Ashcroft. The fourth, a blue ribbon panel headed by former FBI director William Webster, was commissioned by former director Louis Freeh when Hanssen's 15 years of spying became known last February. In addition, committees in both houses of Congress are planning hearings on a range of bureau foul...
...library, their mother Trish became a tougher customer. She shopped around, sifting through test-score data on the Internet and touring a dozen charter schools, including many that she says made her think, "I wouldn't put my dog here." Her children are now prospering at the Noah Webster Basic School, a charter that attracts students who work above their grade level. Samantha and her second-grade friends spout square roots for fun. Fifth-grader Buzz just wrote a paper on Abraham Lincoln's photographer...