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...room on the top floor of a Law School dormitory was badly flooded Wednesday night when hot water seeped through a crack in a new radiator installed by contractors this summer...
...supervisors who were working in his department several years ago remain; the others suffered physical or mental breakdowns. "They slowly crack," the manager continues. "Eventually, enough is enough...
...office towers and luxury high-rises that have so dramatically changed San Francisco's skyline rock like ships in a storm. Inside, people are flung across rooms. Windows and walls crack. When power lines snap, lights go off and elevators abruptly stop, trapping hundreds of panicked office workers...
...brilliancies: his research is irreproachable, his ear infallible. His writing retains a clarity and fury that animates each line. The tribes of the Bible leap from the page; the victims of mass murder speak out after decades of silence. Immigrants to the New World, exiles of the U.S.S.R., crack jokes at the devil and embrace the present with a gusto that belies their wretched past...
...Delac, on his sweetheart's lap. Not to walk back to Peg's picking my way through the blackness with a load tread and louder whistle so Peg would hear me loud and clear and not blast me when, stepping onto his porch, his door popped open a crack and he stood naked in the glow, his hands hidden as I told him we'd be on his property a while longer, if it suited him. Briggs and I hadn't come to Pegleg Mac's to cruise his rutted road, the night's sweat dripping off the Delac...