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Rebecca E. Rollins, the associate director of the Harvard News Office, said in the Globe that the summer school does not conduct criminal background checks on its students. She told The Crimson Wednesday that she had no further information to release at the time. Dean of Students Christopher S. Queen was also unavailable for comment...
Murphy was arrested Monday after making an illegal left turn on Mass. and Western Avenues, according to the Cambridge police report. The Globe reported that after a police officer ticketed Murphy and conducted a background check, officers were informed of the warrant and staked out his car on Oxford Street, where he was arrested...
Blitz acknowledges that the premise of “Rocket Science” was inspired from his own background. Like the main protagonist Hal Hefner, Blitz struggled with stuttering growing up and joined the debate team in high school. However, he says that he drew most from his own memories from the “emotional reality” of stuttering, rather than any specific autobiographical details...
...issue of the Journal of the American Medical Association, when an enlisted parent left home, the rates of confirmed child abuse and neglect rose more than 40%, at the hands of the parent who stayed behind. "These findings were consistent regardless of parents' age, rank or ethnic background," says Deborah Gibbs, the study's lead author, "indicating that deployments are difficult for all kinds of families...
Odds are, you’ve felt it. That itch in the back of your mind. Or maybe it’s a flutter in the pit of your stomach. It started in the background, and then last week it began to build. By now, it’s an all-out full-body thrill...