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...youth-friendly and installing state-of-the-art equipment. The Ping-Pong balls with numbers painted on are gone. Instead, a computer randomly selects the numbers and displays them on a digital screen overhead. The quaint bingo lingo is no more: the two little ducks (22) have flown the coop and the two fat ladies (88) have walked off on their legs eleven (11). But innovation has its limits: an attempt to replace the daubers and paper cards with a small contraption the size of a Palm Pilot bombed. If the machine's power failed mid-game, all would...
...Coop was recently purchased by bookselling giant Barnes and Noble, and the recession has hit independent businesses—which don’t have corporate support nets—particularly hard, booksellers...
DANIEL LEVITAS. The Du Bois Institute and the Harvard Coop co-sponsor a discussion and book signing by Pulitzer Prize nominee Levitas, who will discuss the extent of the terrorist threat posed by white supremacist groups in the United States as described in his most recent book, The Terrorist Next Door: The Militia Movement and the Radical Right, which provides a history of white supremacist groups from their post-Civil War roots to the present. Tuesday, April 22 at 7 p.m. Free. Harvard Coop, 1400 Mass...
POETRY@MIT. As part of the poetry@MIT series, the MIT Coop holds a reading in celebration of their own Joshua Weitz’ first book of poetry, Between the Stones. Weitz is currently a doctoral candidate in physics at MIT. Two other acclaimed local poets, Erica Funkhouser and William Corbett, will join Joshua Weitz in reading. Wednesday, April 23 at 5:30 p.m. Free. MIT Coop Book Department, First Floor. Kendall Square...
...this kind of forgiveness and leniency that only serves to encourage French prisoners to fly the coop, like the three who escaped from Draguignan prison when a friend landed a helicopter in the middle of the courtyard and flew them out. While many French prisons install nets to prevent just such an escape, the lack of standardized, rigorous security measures meant that this prison was not required to have such a net. These structural faults are just symptomatic of the poor planning, weak discipline and general apathy that pervades the French correctional system...