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Hilary R. Cloos ’96 trots along rural New York and Connecticut county roads, looking for her Cinderella. For the past 10 years, Cloos has spent her days trimming, fitting, and polishing—working hours on end to craft the perfect slipper. When she’s done, the armored hoof is ready for showtime.Cloos, a former Harvard physics concentrator and equestrian team captain, is known in eastern New York as a farrier. Laymen often call her a blacksmith, but while blacksmiths forge iron into many shapes and forms, farriers devote their lives to fitting shoes...
...electrical fire broke out in the basement of an MIT-owned office building at around 11 a.m. Friday, and investigators spent the weekend combing through mounds of debris in an attempt to piece together what happened. The fire at the 17-story building at 1 Broadway in Kendall Square left 800 evacuated, at least 100 employees suffering from smoke inhalation, and one dead—Kevin Fidalgo, a 28-year-old employee of electric and gas utility NStar and a former football player for University of Massachusetts-Amherst. Fidalgo and a colleague were in the basement, working on a transformer...
...carried out only one so far and does not plan to hold any more major events this semester. The CEB—which was created last year after the Undergraduate Council decided to cede responsibility for campus-wide social events to an independent body—has not spent a large portion of its funding so far, according to Campus Life Fellow John T. Drake ’06. “We’ve been pretty conservative in spending,” he said, adding that the board has spent “less than half?...
...Undergraduate Council (UC) representatives spent their nights hitting up the Harvard party scene on official Council business this weekend. Under legislation passed last month, the UC tightened oversight of its party fund, whereby Council representatives check up on parties receiving grant money. These “party investigators” would inspect specifically assigned parties funded by the UC to determine whether or not they are sufficiently publicized and accessible to the entire undergraduate body, UC Party Fund Director Samson F. Ayele ’09 wrote in an e-mail to the UC open list...
...governments have been taking no chances since last month's killing of Lebanese Minister of Industry Pierre Gemmayel. Several ministers have taken up quarters in the Serail, sleeping in offices and doing laundry in the bathrooms. "It's surrealistic," said Jihad Azour, the Minister of Finance, who had spent Saturday night at the Serail as a sign of support for Siniora, who now rarely leaves his government's headquarters. Dressed in a corduroy jacket and black bowling sneakers, he looked less like a member of the cabinet than someone's uncle on a tour. "This government was part...