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...dean wrote that he does not want to "wreak retribution" on "the leaker," but said he is "genuinely concerned only to restore confidence where it has been lost...
...never rains but it pours," my mother used to say--and she said that before the invention of even the plain-paper fax. A woman I know who works in data processing told me that even if many expensive adjustments are made beforehand, the year 2000 is likely to wreak havoc with the records of the financial industry...
...fact, most of the action is local rather than national, but it can wreak havoc, as in Crane's case. After word of his gay "marriage" leaked back to the school in rural Byron Center (pop. 6,500), where Crane has been teaching for three years, outraged parents demanded his ouster. There were no grounds for firing him, especially since he had shaped up the once moribund school band to win a regional award. Instead, the school board proclaimed that "individuals who espouse homosexuality do not constitute proper role models" and promised to "monitor" Crane...
...response to recent break-ins at Matthews Hall, the Harvard University Police Department has announced that it will install combination locks on the doors of Matthews bathrooms, apparently to prevent thugs from hiding in the lavatories and then emerging at night to wreak havoc on unsuspecting first-years...
...virus, dutifully taking blood samples every few months) but in the hard-to-reach lymph nodes. Now scientists realize that there is a window of opportunity, and a fairly large one at that, to attack the virus while it is still hiding, before it has started to wreak havoc on the body's natural defenses...