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...come a long way since 1600, when Giordano Bruno, a defrocked priest from Naples, was burned at the stake for espousing, among other things, his belief that there might be other worlds and other life-forms beyond Earth. In our Star Trekking age, it's now almost heretical not to believe in extraterrestrial life--a belief that will surely be fortified by last week's announcement of the discovery of two Saturn-size planets around two distant stars...
They say spring ahead, we spring ahead. They say fall back, we fall back. But come this Sunday at 2 a.m., I--in the noble tradition of Mohandas Gandhi and Frank Bruno--will nonviolently resist. And on Monday, like Martin Luther King Jr., I will sit alone with a pen and paper and draft my "Letter from a Manhattan Restaurant Where I'm Alone Because I'm an Hour Late to Meet a Friend...
Police said that Bruno first spotted the young woman, whom he did not know, in Harvard Square around noon Monday morning...
When they arrived, they saw Bruno, and "had a short discussion with him," said CPD spokesperson Frank D. Pasquarello...
...Bruno was then arrested...