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...Harvard undergraduates were robbed at knife-point early Wednesday morning one block away from Harvard University Police Department (HUPD) headquarters...
Harvard's libraries are currently linked to the Lexis-Nexis system, but students must sign up for a one-hour block of time to use the system and enlist the help of a librarian to gain access...
...only hours earlier, but Colbert had a woman on his mind. His date for the night lived in a Philadelphia neighborhood known for its crime and poverty, and Colbert couldn't find her house. Then he got lucky--or so he thought. A police wagon was idling down the block, and Colbert got out of his dark blue 1985 Toyota Camry to ask directions. Inside the police van were two uniformed cops, a lean, square-jawed officer with longish yellow hair--known and feared on the streets as Blondie--and a short, dark-haired officer named Tommy Ryan. As Colbert...
When the search turned up nothing, Ryan and Blondie directed Colbert to his date's home on the next block. Within minutes, as Colbert and the woman were driving off, the same cops appeared again. After telling the woman to "get lost," they handcuffed Colbert and told him he resembled a drug dealer named Hakim. Procedure dictated that Colbert be booked at the 39th-district police headquarters, about a mile away. But Colbert wasn't in the land of official procedure; he was in the hands of Blondie. So, instead, he was taken to 1518 Ontario Street, a run-down...
...BLOCK THE BLOCKER? Calcium-channel blockers for hypertension, already thought to raise cancer risk, may also lead to memory loss...