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These documents were then leaded to The Old Mole, a bi-weekly, radial, underground newspaper run primarily by recent Harvard graduates...
...censorship of neo-Nazis in Germany, for example, has only driven them underground and perhaps made them far more dangerous then before, because they cannot be debunked in an open forum...
This time, as before, the problem lay beneath the airport's terrazzo floors, amid the underground warren of computers, conveyor belts, wires and thousands of motors that make up the airport's Disneyesque baggage system. As designed, 4,000 computer-guided fiber-glass carts, each carrying a single suitcase, will roll along 22 miles of serpentine steel tracks, delivering 60,000 bags an hour to and from dozens of distant gates and carrousels. The system employs electromagnetic motors attached to the tracks to power the carts, which are routed and monitored by banks of logic controllers, sensors and photocells...
...entries rest directly above the underground kitchen, which prepares meals for five river houses. Residents claim that the work, which often begins before 8 a.m., has become a serious annoyance as they prepare for final exams...
...paradox of leadership is that voters are partial to candidates who seem both bigger than they are and yet are also one of them. When Mandela lived underground as an outlaw in the early 1960s and was dubbed the Black Pimpernel by the South African press for his ability to elude the police, his colleagues marveled at how he blended in with the people. He usually disguised himself as a chauffeur; he would don a long dustcoat, hunch his shoulders and, suddenly, this tall, singularly regal figure was transformed into one of the huddled masses moving along the streets...