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Along with officers from MIT and the city of Cambridge, a frustrated Harvard University Police Department (HUPD) stepped up efforts to apprehend Andre K. Stuckey Jr., who they believe was responsible for three robberies on Thursday, two of them at Harvard...
...Year's morning as the lights flicker out around town, money shoots out of ATMs, people panic in the streets, and an errant missile zooms by overhead. On the one hand, the passing of a thousand years is staggering for a mortal of perhaps 80 years' life-span to apprehend; on the other, its commercialization renders it trivial. No wonder some people are stepping back to mark the occasion in a small-scale, personal way--to take a time-out at this ultimate juncture of time...
These acts should therefore function as paradoxical blessings to the queer community. They are an occasion for epiphany. Through them we may apprehend the meaning of coming out and staying out. We can understand that coming out is always a political act, always a political and ethical necessity. The craven rationalizations that keep the closeted entombed--the conviction that being out makes no difference--are as groundless as they are deadly. They cripple queer movements at their seminal moment (the avowal of queer identity) even as they strengthen heterosexual privilege by disappearing within...
...What he finds amazes him. You'd be overcome, he muses, if all the town's roofs came off and you were forced to look down--"and not just by malignancy and suffering, but by all the tenderness and joy, all the little acts of courage and kindness...to apprehend it all at once--who could stand...
...larceny occurred at the Science Center. The HUPD received a call saying that a laptop was stolen while its owner was in the building. The man chased the people who stole his laptop and was able to retrieve it. HUPD officers were not able to apprehend any suspects...