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...officer checked on a suspicious person who appeared to be breaking into a motor vehicle at 12 Mt. Auburn St. A brief investigation revealed that the suspect was actually the owner...
...take a deep breath. After a brief but painful downturn marked by widespread layoffs, a morale-crushing bear market in stocks and the virtual shutdown of the travel industry post-Sept. 11, the rich smell of recovery is in the air. Even basset-faced Alan Greenspan has picked up the scent. "Recent evidence increasingly suggests that an economic expansion is already well under way," the Fed chief told the Senate Banking Committee...
Harvard didn’t have the big players or the light blue bathrooms in its favor on Saturday night, but still demonstrated its potential strength against powerhouses outside the Ivy League. Brief glimpses of the Crimson team that dominated team after team this season shone through, as Monti scored six-straight points within a minute, as Hana Peljto hit a trey, as Dirkje Dunham took a charge late in the first...
...been coached to play this role. The saris on the cover seek to entice those readers seeking a little spice. The requisite quote from Amy Tan, the goddess of the Asian-American immigrant experience, leaps off the back cover to suggest a more predictable tale. Just above that, the brief description of the book as “a stirring novel of three women, two continents, and a perilous journey from the old world to the new,” serves the same purpose...
...professor showed Alba—the brainchild of a sick-minded conceptual artist—to raise the ethical question of whether it is acceptable to genetically engineer animals for artwork. But no sooner did he get a perfunctory guffaw from the class for effect, than he gave a brief exhortation to the class to go home and think about the interesting ethical dilemma of engineering life as artwork. Without further comment, he clicked the slide continuing the lecture as normal...