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...Cambridge Center for Adult Education on Brattle Street -- familiar host to many a sketchy Harvard party -- has reportedly been slapped with a cease and desist order from the friendly neighborhood fire department. That means yet another rare Harvard Square party venue is rendered effectively dead, and as a result, Harvard groups that hoped to plan parties in the popular space are out of luck...
...whisperer” made harassing early-morning calls in which he told students he “was crazy about you.” While police could not take action against the man because his actions were not illegal, local police told him to cease and desist. Similar calls resumed in 2003, though there was no confirmed link to the man in Florida. Onofrey said the oddity of the call was less unusual than just getting a call itself. When the phone rang, “my roommate picked up the camera because this was the momentous event...
...Turner and its subcontractor Spiniello Construction, used fans to divert the fumes away from the neighborhood. They also channeled the contaminated water into the Boston Water and Sewer bypass, mixing and diluting it. By the following Monday, August 4, the Massachusetts Water Resources Authority officially issued a cease and desist order on the pipe renovation until the situation is completely resolved. "We have to make sure that this community is safe," said Boston Transportation Commissioner Thomas J. Tinlin at the meeting. "Nothing further is going to happen until we insist upon certain measures." Although Coleman outlined the ways in which...
Indeed, even government regulators can hardly figure it out. In June, after receiving complaints from consumers, the California Department of Health sent cease-and-desist letters to 13 companies, including deCODE Genetics, 23andMe and Navigenics, asking them to stop doing business with California customers until they could prove they were complying with state laws. In California, only physicians may order lab tests, and all labs must obtain a state license and meet federal CLIA requirements. Last November, New York State's Department of Health mailed similar letters to 31 companies. (Navigenics and 23andMe have since submitted business plans...
...former Sunni insurgents have made common cause with the U.S., one of Iraq's largest Shi'ite factions has been eerily quiet. In late August, for reasons that are still a little mysterious, Muqtada al-Sadr ordered his Mahdi Army to desist from attacking U.S. forces. U.S. officials believe al-Sadr's move was less about helping the U.S. than about purging unruly elements from his 60,000-man militia. Another interpretation is that al-Sadr is simply waiting out the surge and that his fighters will return to the fray when U.S. troops have withdrawn. Whatever the reason, Odierno...