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...Chandra's epic is sometimes slow moving and occasionally overambitious; but like Bombay, its flaws are outweighed by its virtues. Chief among these is the way Chandra takes you inside the world of a Bombay cop. After reading the book, you'll swear you know precisely how to collect a bribe from a nightclub owner, how to count the money in a glance, and where to find the smart fellow who will shift the loot to a Swiss bank account. Rarely entirely honest or entirely rotten, Chandra's Bombay exists in a penumbra of moral ambiguity-which is why Sacred...
This time of year ten years ago, Phillips Brooks House (PBH) modestly collected toys for five child service agencies. Today it’s targeting twice as many agencies—aspiring to collect more than 1,000 toys for needy children in the Cambridge and Boston area. After a two-week drive to collect gift items ranging from stuffed animals to DVD players, the PBH Holiday Gift Drive will wrap up tomorrow. The gift drive is been an opportunity for Harvard’s employees to give to the community, said Zandra Kambysellis, the PBH department administrator in charge...
...city streets. Prefer a regular cut tree? Choose a real one that's grown without pesticides or chemical fertilizers-ask local merchants if they have an organic farm supplier-or order from Freshchristmastree.com, a grower that ships to 46 states and uses sustainable methods. Then recycle: many municipalities collect trees to mulch. Search Earth911.org to find programs in your area...
When the bin is full, sensors trigger gears that then compact 180 gal. of waste into 40-lb., easy-to-collect bags. An LED display indicates when the trash is ready to be picked up. Poss has plans for that system to be replaced by a wireless one that will signal when the can is full...
...1960s, when blacks suddenly were allowed to make movies told from our point of view. Melvin Van Peebles' 1971 Sweet Sweetback's Baadasssss Song--an ode to a wronged black man on the run from the cops--introduced the lead character as a "baadasssss nigger coming back to collect some dues!" And that "nigger" in the film, as Van Peebles tells it, snapped the streak of "liberal, sort of nice movies where we always ended up dead...