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Dudley House. “We believe some greasy towels that were just taken out of the dryer caught on fire due to spontaneous combustion,” Byrne said. Nine units from the Cambridge Fire Department responded immediately and confined the fire to the bin. The fire spread to the wall behind the bin, but the damage was not substantial, Byrne said. “It’s mostly smoke damage,” said Cambridge Fire Chief Gerald R. Reardon. The firefighters left just before 7 a.m., after which Harvard University Maintenance responded and residents were allowed...
...give his name for fear of retribution laughed and grew evasive. “It sometimes does do that, but I don’t know if that would be right to bring up.” In theory, the UA who unfreezes your computer won’t spread your penchant for adult material around campus. But even if he wouldn’t tell FM exactly what depravity he’s encountered on student PCs, FM’s source admits that “a lot of personal data gets shown...because it is data backup...
...ending poverty for at least two decades and is directing a lot of the government's energies into helping the rural poor. But change, especially in India's most neglected areas, takes time - and Indians want better lives now, not tomorrow. Television and better communications, especially the incredible spread of mobile phones, has given India's poor a small taste of the life they are missing...
Glitz is a Vikram Chatwal hallmark. When the 35-year-old scion of Indian-American hotel-and-restaurant tycoon Sant Chatwal got married in February to Bombay socialite Priya Sachdev, the wedding was spread over 10 unrestrained parties in three Indian cities for a full week, and[an error occurred while processing this directive] drew celebrities like Bill Clinton (Sant is a serious donor to the U.S. Democratic Party) and steel magnate Lakshmi Mittal. The style of Vikram's personal hotel group, called Hautel Couture, is just as extravagant as its owner...
...seems little prospect of achieving anything that could be construed as a U.S. victory - and as a result, it is unlikely to send the promised tidal wave of freedom crashing across the Arab world. Instead, Iraq has effectively disintegrated into a Sunni-Shi'ite civil war that threatens to spread instability throughout the region...