Word: biked
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...wacko cyclists were the only irrational people in this mess. The wizards at city hall inflamed the situation by sending out battalions of police in riot gear. They arrested more than 100 cyclists, including some peaceable ones who were just trying to point out that the city needs more bike lanes; their bikes were confiscated. The normally unflappable Mayor Willie Brown, a world-class deal broker, seemed ready to snap. Critical Mass, a leaderless mob that refers to itself as an idea rather than an organization (and has manifestations in a dozen other cities), had got his goat by having...
...Bonner Park is cut low now. The city crews came out and manicured it earlier this month, just in time for a vigil held there for Michael Carter. And Mayor Stanley is forging ahead on an aggressive community-policing initiative that includes more neighborhood mini-stations, mounted officers and bike patrols. He expects that the changes could significantly reduce citywide murders. But it's doubtful that by the time Stanley seeks re-election in two years, anyone will have forgotten what happened to the kids who crossed his tracks...
HUPD Chief Francis D. "Bud" Riley initiated bike patrols and other measures this summer in an attempt to fully integrate police into the Harvard community...
...very hard-working and intense...We had this thing we called 'efficient partying,'" says Vivek H. Maru '97, one of Ramos' current Pforzheimer House roommates. "We would study really hard until midnight on the weekends and then bike down to MIT for a frat party. That way we could study a lot and still arrive during the best part of the party...
...Back then everyone rode a bike," Conlin recalls. "Then one morning they woke up to find them all hidden on top of the House...