{"id":5123,"date":"2004-11-10T11:58:46","date_gmt":"2004-11-10T15:58:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.law.harvard.edu\/formerlyknownas\/2004\/11\/10\/after-the-plumber\/"},"modified":"2011-08-05T14:58:15","modified_gmt":"2011-08-05T18:58:15","slug":"after-the-plumber","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/ethicalesq\/2004\/11\/10\/after-the-plumber\/","title":{"rendered":"after the plumber"},"content":{"rendered":"

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The plumber finally came to stem a hot water leak in my bathroom.  Despite gray clouds,<\/FONT><\/DIV>
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as the rain ends<\/FONT><\/DIV>
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George Swede<\/FONT><\/A> <\/FONT>from <\/FONT><\/FONT><\/SPAN>Almost<\/EM> Unseen: Selected Haiku of George Swede<\/EM><\/FONT><\/FONT><\/FONT><\/A> <\/FONT><\/SPAN><\/DIV>
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last goodbye –
scent of his wool coat
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\"tiny  Former Senator Gary Hart, who recently wrote <\/FONT>The Fourth Power<\/EM><\/A>: A Grand Strategy for the United States <\/EM><\/FONT><\/FONT>in the Twenty-First Century<\/EM><\/FONT> had some wise words in an NYT <\/EM>op\/ed piece<\/A> this week, including: <\/FONT><\/FONT><\/DIV>
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