Word: backpackable
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Arriving on a motorcycle, wearing jeans and a carrying a backpack, Alain Cojean is hardly the image of a Paris restaurant mogul. But then again the 45-year-old with an unassuming but frenetic demeanor hasn't created your typical Paris eatery. On an unusually warm April morning across the street from the Louvre, in a former tea salon in a building built in the mid-19th century, he is inspecting progress on the construction of what will be the newest location of his namesake fast-food restaurant. Five or six weeks from now, the team of workers sanding...
...unidentified assailant attempted to rob an undergraduate at knifepoint early Sunday morning, but was thwarted when the victim threw his backpack at the suspect and disarmed him, according to police...
...victim then “indicated to the suspect that he was going to comply with his demand for his wallet,” but instead threw his backpack at the attacker, the advisory said. Once the attacker had fallen to the ground, the suspect fled...
...amazed that he would be so bold as to throw his backpack,” said Trevor J. Bakker...
...Memorial Dr., steps away from Eliot House. According to a community advisory released by the Harvard University Police Department (HUPD) yesterday, the cunning would-be victim, asked to hand over his wallet, gave his would-be attacker the impression that he was about to comply, only to throw his backpack at the ne’er-do-well, knocking him to the ground. According to the advisory, the student wrestled the suspect’s weapon away from him while he was on the pavement, before the foiled bandit took off across the bridge and into Allston...