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...many bishops are treating parishes as if they were Starbucks franchises. It's about more than money.' CHRISTINE SCHENK, a Cleveland-area nun, denouncing a spate of church closures due to depopulation and financial strains...
...three old mansions on the Harvard Law School campus in 2007 drew the Cambridge Historical Commission’s Preservation Award last Thursday, lending a dose of prestige to the aged structures where 26 Law School students currently reside. The award, bestowed annually for historically accurate restorations of Cambridge-area houses, recognized the Law School’s work on a trio of 19th-century Victorian mansions, which were updated and moved 150 yards from their original sites to make way for the school’s Northwest Corner Project—a construction initiative aiming to create new classrooms...
...usual Saturday morning bustle of Harvard Square was disrupted when Cambridge Police and the Cambridge bomb squad swarmed the area in response to a bomb threat. Police closed down Massachusetts Avenue, the Harvard Square MBTA stop, and several nearby Square businesses. “Where the T stop was, there must have been like eight or 10 SWAT cars and a big squad car parked there,” said Pierce E. Tria ’10. Tria said he saw Harvard and Cambridge police officers cordoning off Holyoke and Mount Auburn Streets. The scare was precipitated by a call...
Chenglin Yuan, who lives in the Boston area, said that she looks most forward to meeting her potential classmates, many of whom she has already met at a preview event held by the Harvard Club of Boston. “Everyone was surprisingly really normal…” she said. “But they were extraordinary people, too!” she quickly added...
...standards in Italy and the latest methods used for trying to predict when the earth will shake. Indeed, a little-noticed controversy had erupted the week before, after Giampaolo Giuliani, a seismologist at the nearby Gran Sasso National Laboratory in Abruzzo, predicted, following months of small tremors in the area, that a much bigger jolt was on its way. The researcher had said that a "disastrous" earthquake would strike on March 29, but when it didn't, Guido Bertolaso, head of Italy's Civil Protection Agency, officially denounced Giuliani in court last week for "false alarm." "These imbeciles enjoy spreading...