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Individual members of SCA also branch out to do public education on the medieval period in the Boston area...
Since the Harvard branch of SCA is part of an international organization, many of its undergraduate members continue with the organization after graduation. Local residents are also involved in the club...
...life. Social status is no indicator of susceptibility and no defense against it. For instance, while many of the dead at Jonestown were poor, the Solar Temple favors the carriage trade. Its disciples have included the wife and son of the founder of the Vuarnet sunglass company. The Branch Davidians at Waco came from many walks of life. And at Rancho Santa Fe they were paragons of the entrepreneurial class, so well organized they died in shifts...
...have a new Poet Laureate, and we should all be proud. Robert Pinsky, translator of Dante's Inferno and poetry editor of Internet magazine Slate, was named United States Poet Laureate on Friday. Pinsky, a 56-year-old native of Long Branch, New Jersey, teaches creative writing at the graduate center of Boston University. He has taught at Stanford and Wellesley in the past and is off to Northwestern to be writer-in-residence...
...most worrisome new development is the so-called takeover robbery, in which an armed gang holds tellers and customers hostage. On Feb. 28, a commando-style assault on a Bank of America branch led to a firefight on the streets of North Hollywood, California, in which two robbers died and dozens of police and bystanders were wounded. In Orange County, California, 17 such takeover robberies occurred last year, up 140% from...