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...charge of environmental enforcement. DEP officials reassigned Gatto's car, replacing it with a worn-out wreck with 156,000 miles on it and no working two-way radio. (He's since been given a newer model.) Meanwhile, the city started an investigation against Gatto's senior detective, Chris Clinch, for allegedly mishandling a police parking placard and placing household garbage in a DEP Dumpster. A judge later exonerated Officer Clinch in a decision suggesting that a city official may have fabricated testimony to discredit Gatto...
Last year, the Crimson finished fourth, just short of the third-place finish needed to clinch a berth at Nationals...
...genres, in which good and evil are allowed to mingle. Think of all the seedy detectives and flawed spies. Romances must end happily; the spirited heroine must bring the male of her choice to heel--"civilize" or "tame" him, as romance authors like to put it--before the final clinch and fade-out. Defenders often point out that mysteries must also conclude in a predetermined manner: the crime is solved, the suspect unmasked. But that analogy won't wash, since the identity of the guilty party in mysteries is withheld until the end. Romance heroines and readers rarely doubt which...
Harvard (18-4-3, 15-4-3 ECAC) needs two points to clinch home ice in the first round of the playoffs, which would be at Bright Hockey Center next weekend. If the Crimson wins in the first round, it would advance to the semifinals in nearby Providence...
Bradley was not always there in the clinch. He missed the crucial series of votes in 1985, though the margins were such that his votes would not have made a difference in the outcome. But in 1990, Bradley and Gore were on opposite sides of an amendment that would have prohibited the sale of large-capacity ammunition magazines and banned a dozen types of assault-style weapons. The language ultimately became law under the Clinton-Gore Administration...