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...Karen A. McKinnon ’10, co-chairs of Harvard’s Environmental Action Committee (EAC), have enabled students to expend their eco-friendly energy in a much easier way. In fact, it’s as simple as riding a bike—a bike that’s made entirely out of salvaged and recycled parts, that is. The EAC launched the VeriFast program Saturday, April 25, allowing students to rent bikes from their Houses at no charge. The EAC was able to launch the program with a $6,500 grant it received from the Green...
Last August, two Harvard University Police Department officers responded to a report that an unidentified individual at the Barker Center was cutting a bicycle lock. They encountered a young man cutting the lock off a bike he claimed belonged to him. The bike was his, but it was reported that one of the officers drew a pistol and pointed it at the young man. President Faust introduced a committee to investigate how the HUPD can serve the Harvard campus in response to this event, allegations of inappropriate practices, and out of a desire to ensure the security of our campus...
...Allen Counter, a Harvard Medical School professor and the director of the Harvard Foundation, was stopped by police while walking through the Yard. A black high school student was confronted by HUPD officers when trying to remove a lock from his bike...
...could certainly see this becoming an annual event.” Aside from tourists, students, and Cambridge residents, the party also drew local luminaries. “It’s fantastic,” said City Councillor Sam Seidel, adding that he rides a bike whenever possible and is upgrading aspects of his house to improve energy-efficiency. “You can’t beat an event like this on a day like this,” he said. —Staff writer Liyun Jin can be reached at ljin@fas.harvard.edu...
...first see him, he’s living homeless and schizophrenic in the tunnels and streets of Los Angeles. Enter Steve Lopez (Robert Downey Jr.), an eccentric, popular Los Angeles Times columnist who, despite his professional success, seems to be barely keeping it together. He goes flying over his bike on the way to work, accidentally sprays a bag of coyote urine in his face as he cleans his backyard, and works with his snarky ex-wife (Catherine Keener). With this, the movie constructs the seemingly perfect set-up for an unlikely friendship between two men who desperately need comebacks...