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Jerry, the popular Harvard Square barber known almost as well for his preaching as he is for his haircuts, may not be underground much longer...
According to Mark Erlich, business manager for Carpenters' Local 40, Harvard is "subsidizing an underground economy...
...Everything but the Girl, the winningly unprepossessing British duo whose single Missing is nudging Mariah Carey and Whitney Houston in the singles charts, success is fun but not essential. "It's thrilling to have a pop hit," says Watt. "But I'd got used to our life as an underground band." Not surprising, since he and TRACEY THORN have been recording since 1982. In 1992, when Watt nearly died of Churg-Strauss syndrome, an autoimmune disease that can affect the lungs and intestines, they reassessed everything. One result: Missing. Now the album's moving too, but Watt can cope...
DIED. JOSEPH BRODSKY, 55, exiled Russian poet, 1987 Nobel prizewinner and poet laureate of his adopted U.S.; of a heart attack; in New York City. Brodsky's 1964 Soviet trial for "parasitism," prompted by the underground distribution of his works, made him a cause celebre in the West and led to his expulsion in 1972. His intense verses, filled with images of loss and wandering, won him wide acclaim and America's highest honor for poetry...
...leaked from an underground tank used to store heating oil for Boston University's School of Fine Arts. Although the tank was capable of holding 20,000 gallons, it contained only 11,000 at the time of the leak, Reilly said...