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...garage behind the house, with the door wide open to the dark November morning, they lay the wood on the sawhorses and cut me a new room. My brother watched them as they ran the power saws until sweat froze to their foreheads. I came by and helped them pile up the planks, but soon my hands froze and I walked back to the house. The boards piled as high as my chin...
...mail has helped me to reduce my phone bill, but will never eliminate it completely--sometimes, I crave the sound of a human voice. A computer can't duplicate the distinctive handwriting in a "snail mail" letter. Messages pile into the e-mail "mailbox" mechanically, their arrival times their primary distinguishing characteristics...
...expect better conduct from Harvard administrators. A Harvard professor such as Stager should approach employees honestly and openly if he senses a problem within the workplace. Instead, he now has in his possession a pile of correspondence--business and private--sent and received by the museum's staff. Not all of this is official "museum business," and certainly much of it was not intended for others to read...
When Captain John Anderson flew into Kismayu last December, the door of his C-141 air transport opened to admit a blast of foul air. "It was the smell of rotting flesh," he recalls. Not far from the airstrip was a pile of partly dismembered bodies in a shallow mass grave, victims of a local warlord. In some places, Somalis who at first welcomed the Americans became resentful when they realized that the U.S. would not simply wipe out the warlords who were terrorizing them. At the same time, soldiers found themselves in mortal danger whenever they seemed...
After Yale opened the season without star tailback Keith Price and then lost to Yale 12-3 in the opener, most people wrote the Bulldogs off. But behind Mills and a rejuvenated passing game, Yale is starting to pile up the points while Harvard seems to be in a mini-slump. Harvard's matchup against Holy Cross this weekend provides the best test so far of what fans can expect to see in The Game on November...