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Fitzgerald, who serves as the department's chief arson investigator, said that he foresees no major changes. He said the department runs smoothly and responds efficiently to about 12,000 incidents every year...
...owner of the van, Michael J. Hooten '91-'92, said he had no reason to suspect arson. "If it were arson, I don't think it was done to spite me. I really don't have any enemies that I know of," said Hooten, a North House affiliate currently on leave...
Flames engulfed a student-owned van parked outside Cabot House early Sunday morning, in an incident police and fire fighters are investigating as arson...
Shortly after fire fighters extinguished the flames, Lt. Sandy Francis of the Cambridge Fire Department gave orders to have the van impounded and examined by an arson investigator. Officials suspect arson because the fire started in the back seat of the vehicle--far from its engine--and there was no collision before the blaze, Lt. Francis said...
Barnard's concern is what makes people "nice," and he homes in on the distinctions between virtue and conformity. His central characters are the Phelans, a scruffy clan of hoodlums, vandals, welfare cheats and general layabouts who are burned out of their home in a fatal arson. Not even this makes them sympathetic. They remain a bitter if invigorating tonic, to be taken in carefully measured doses. But they are mean-spirited fun. Barnard, an acute and merciless chronicler of Britain's middle classes, is at his fiercest in showing how the proper bourgeoisie reacts to, and is repeatedly bested...