Third, the Bush campaign pointed to the polluted waters of Boston Harbor as proof that Dukakis was a poor governor.

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For the past three years, the group has visited Memphis, Tennessee, each spring to help clean up a harbor on the Mississippi River where the waters are thick with debris.

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On Oct. 29, storm waters roared in from the nearby harbor into South Ferry, filling it 80 feet deep, said acting MTA chief Fernando Ferrer.

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All along the fjord, word quickly had it, the waters had risen and had breached the harbor walls.

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