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...Officers were dispatched to 5 Linden St. after the report of an assault in progress. They arrested William Cicero, a former Harvard maintenance worker, after he allegedly beat a homeless man with a meat cleaver and a club...
Guns were drawn and fingers clutched the triggers, as a heavy-set older man brandishing a meat cleaver and a club glared into the eyes of the Harvard University Police Department (HUPD) officers surrounding him near the top of Linden Street...
...Cheryl Nevins, most of these women are choosing not so much to drop out as to stop out, often with every intention of returning. Their mantra: You can have it all, just not all at the same time. Their behavior, contrary to some popular reports, is not a June Cleaver-ish embrace of old-fashioned motherhood but a new, nonlinear approach to building a career and an insistence on restoring some kind of sanity. "What this group is staying home from is the 80-hour-a-week job," says Hochschild. "They are committed to work, but many watched their mothers...
...Super Bowl fiasco showed how tough it is to assemble a giant mainstream spectacle for today's niched audience. Even the audience reaction ranged from deep offense to bemusement. Bill Cleaver, of Pittsboro, N.C., watched the performance with his wife Julia and their daughter Annie, 10. "I'm not a Boy Scout," he said, "but I know in public what is appropriate manners and what is vulgarity." Then again, TiVo, the digital-video-recorder maker, said the event was the most replayed ever among its users. In a TIME/CNN poll, 47% of respondents said the incident marked...
...Nothing wrong my memory. Depress 'cause can not forget." Amy suffered for Daisy's traumas. In the short essay Confessions, the most harrowing piece in the collection, Amy recalls a violent standoff with her mother over her first real boyfriend, a confrontation that ended with Daisy holding a meat cleaver against her daughter's neck. Years later, when Alzheimer's has almost obliterated Daisy's memory, Amy asks her mother about the incident. Daisy laughs and dismisses it. Amy was always a good daughter, she says, and they never fought. Never. Writes Tan: "How wonderful to hear her say what...