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Residents of the Kirkland House Annex were barred from their rooms in freezing temperatures Friday night following a false fire alarm. The alarm was set off when someone “intentionally and maliciously discharged a fire extinguisher” in L entryway, according to Deputy Fire Chief Francis Murphy of the Cambridge Fire Department. The alarm was activated at 1:23 a.m. and firefighters left Kirkland at 2:13 a.m. after determining the cause of the alarm, Murphy said. According to Kirkland residents, Harvard University Police Department (HUPD) prevented students from all of the Annex?...
...played the straight man to Stickley's goofy charmer, had four minutes alone in a credit union's communications hub--plenty of time to install a wireless "sniffer" that could later broadcast information going in and out of the bank. He could also have shut down the security cameras, alarm and telephone systems. The pair got access to the back side of the ATM and a room with boxes of backup customer data. Alsbury was able to drop a disc into an unattended, logged-on computer: a Trojan Horse virus could then download itself and allow him to hack...
...patients' parents came into the floor's playroom and told us that there was a 3 alarm fire at a building in Cambridge," she wrote. "I saw a helicopter flying over the [L]ongfellow [B]ridge...
Meanwhile, at the Center for High-Energy Metaphysics, some rocket scientist pulled the fire alarm, a few days after those crazy Co-op kids almost burned down their kitchen. The long-suffering Cambridge fire department responded, sirens blaring, and a furious resident screamed after fleeing revelers: “NO MORE PARTIES!!!” At least one person was scared—a girl fleeing the scene was apparently so disturbed, she ran right into a parked car. Karma: better than...
...episode highlights the hair-trigger sensitivity to Islamic issues in Britain today. While the presence of parallel legal systems in ethnic communities may alarm the British, it's the perceived growth of a parallel Islamic culture that causes most concern. Hence, the slightest suggestion of Sharia law on British turf hits the headlines in a flash, and the debate over Muslim women wearing the veil rumbles on. (A poll this week found one in three people would support a ban on face-covering veils in public places...