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...from the halcyon days of summer, validating this three-month break from classes that is fast coming to a close.Not that I haven’t had a fantastic summer in Cambridge and The Crimson’s usually-air-conditioned offices. In fact, the bus rides to Beantown have been just as promising as those to the Big Apple. Mine has been a desire to escape, to squeeze all the possibility out of my dozen weeks liberated from the structure and rigor of the academic year.The dilemma is how we realize our summer goals—and, more basically...
...Basically, the main comment that just cannot be emphasized enough is that we proved today that nothing can stop the bus,” Rose said. “The bus rolled through Houston. And then the bus is rolling the party back to Beantown tomorrow...
Crime rates in Cambridge have remained flat in recent years, while violent crime in Boston is skyrocketing, part of a nationwide trend of heightened violence.The number of Beantown shootings increased by 34 percent in 2005, according to Boston Police Department (BPD), while the violent crime rate in Cambridge dropped less than 1 percent. According to BPD Sergeant Thomas Sexton, there were 75 homicides in Boston in the last year, “the highest in ten years.”Sexton attributed the majority of violent crimes in Boston to the city’s juvenile population...
...during its four-game losing streak, scoring only 163 points in the first half, compared to 248 in the second. Righting the Crimson’s ship will be no easy task. Not only does Harvard have to worry about its own problems, but it must also contend with Beantown rival Boston University to break the slide tonight. The Terriers beat Brown in Providence, 73-59, last week before a close loss at Indiana broke a five-game winning streak. “We’re just going to try and work really hard against them?...
...freaky climate, FM checked out ye olde bastion of meteorological knowledge: The Old Farmer’s Almanac. The paperback tome, published annually since 1792, purports to predict a year’s worth of America’s weather. This year, things look especially grim for Beantown. Come winter, Harvardians can look forward to reading period, latkes at Hillel, and “much greater than normal” snowfall, according to the Almanac. Not to mention the chill factor: temperatures will be “colder than normal in December and exceptionally cold in the second half...