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...already late in the evening. A full moon is casting an eerie light on the scene. The skeptic moves forward, tightly gripping the twin rods and saying, "I am seeking water. I am seeking water." Suddenly the rods swing apart. Have the rods found water? Or did they simply slip apart from the motion of the skeptic's stride? Kaufmann has no doubts. "You've got the gift,: he gloats. "You've got divining power." What did he find? asks the incredulous apostle of science, admittedly a little shaken but hardly converted. "Oh, probably a cesspool," Kaufmann...
...problem, stated simply, has been this: while Harvard has played pretty, textbook soccer up and down the field, the offense has failed to get its act together on key scoring chances, while the solid defense has let a couple of weird goals slip by in unsettled situations...
...longer the game went, the more confident MIT got," a subdued coach George Ford said after the game. The Crimson controlled the first half--taking a 1-0 lead on Tommy Hsiao's goal--and much of the second, but let the Engineers slip away...
Perhaps the police could not be blamed for failing to pick up the trail on that occasion. But in August, in an unparalleled display of ineptness, the authorities allowed Stoll and his comrades to slip through their fingers. As an outraged Bundestag investigating committee revealed last week, the suspects had been virtually handed over to the federal crime police antiterrorist squad by an observant helicopter pilot in Michelstadt, Karin Rieger. She reported that the three fugitives, equipped with a camera and video-tape equipment, had chartered her chopper for several flights over the Rhine Valley, ostensibly to film historic castles...
...with that their own jobs. Harvard, they feared, was out to cut the Harvard University Police Department (HUPD) down to nothing but security guards. Gorski's organizational reforms made many cops wonder whether their ten or 15 years on the force would amount to no more than a pink slip...