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...Sports Illustrated, the Bible of my youth? Did I want to trail overpaid athletes with a tape recorder, hoping I had gotten the crumb of a quote to separate my story from a rival's? Did I want to sit in an office, orchestrating a section from my desk, waiting for my minions to bring their "big scoops" about the contract negotiations for a new shortstop...
...ceremony, the once-professor Rudenstine talked about commitment to the University, the kind of commitment that keeps a librarian behind the same reference desk for a quarter century, the kind of commitment that is pretty hard to come by these days. I’m no fan of the Progressive Student Labor Movement, but I couldn’t suppress the percolating wellspring of ironic indignation within my chest when the president spoke of the rarity of such service. Security guards and custodians, young Turks who age into sparkling-eyed old men after a lifetime helping fancy Harvard kids...
...made my home not in Lowell House but at a small desk to the right of the white eraser board under the bright lights in the busy newsroom at 14 Plympton Street. The more Harvardians who decide to join, the better, for their knowledge and for The Crimson?...
...know something's out there you can't do something to fix it," says the agent. "That's why so many agents kept their stuff locked up in their desk where it couldn't get screwed up." Name a sensitive, headline-making case and you can find a flap over lost-and-found documents. The humiliations range from the Congressional investigations into director J. Edgar Hoover's massive COINTELPRO domestic surveillance program to the overzealous terrorism investigation by the Committee in Solidarity with the People of El Salvador (CISPES) to the Chinese espionage cases of the late 1990s...
...Left alone in the room and watched by their parents and researchers through a one-way mirror, 75 percent of the boys found the real gun in the desk drawers, and most of those who found it picked it up and handled it. Among the boys who found the real gun, one third pulled the trigger with enough force to fire the weapon. Almost all the boys who handled the gun had some gun safety training, which emphasizes the importance of leaving guns alone and finding an adult to put the gun away...