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...seeing the contrast between how things happened during games 6 and 7 in New York and how they were reported to have happened here on Wednesday—along with what I witnessed after attending the first game of the World Series last Saturday—makes me realize how much more in tune the NYPD is with crowd control...
...contrast, when I returned to Boston and attended the World Series on Saturday, it was a much different scene both inside and outside of Fenway Park. Instead of a constant police presence throughout the stadium, the police huddled in clusters at the entrances to the stands, seemingly waiting for a problem to erupt so they could react to it. Outside on Lansdowne Street after the conclusion of the Red Sox’s thrilling 11-9 victory over the Cardinals, the police that I saw were decked out in full riot gear with masks, shields and batons in full view...
Clemens, by contrast, is a recent convert to the conservative cause. “I was uncommitted before college,” the Lowell House resident says from the backseat of Fernandez’s Lumina. “I first started getting active in the Republican Club as a result of Ec 10 with Marty,” Clemens says—using an affectionate nickname for Baker Professor of Economics Martin S. Feldstein ’61, a former top Reagan adviser. Clemens says that as he progresses farther in the economics concentration, he has become more committed...
...contrast, a relative upstart with $5.4 billion in annual revenue, increasingly is focused on online commerce--and its travel portion generates 31% of revenue and 61% of operating profit. IAC also owns LendingTree, dating service Match.com local online resource CitySearch and the largely offline cash generators Ticketmaster and Home Shopping Network (HSN). Diller's strategy: use the cash from Ticketmaster and HSN to promote his online ambitions, and be there as consumers migrate from all manner of traditional services to the Web. "We fundamentally believe that more and more things are going online," Diller says. "We are experts in bringing...
...contrast, Pesaturo called the new function of the token collectors an “integral part of the plan” to redevelop the MBTA. He said it was important not only to assist customers, but to “serve as another set of eyes” to monitor safety conditions...