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...brag about it. The local jails are sometimes too full to permit arrests for certain crimes. A local television report recently quoted an Oakland police estimate that one-fourth of the city's prostitutes were underage. Crime has dropped since Brown became mayor, but it's rising again, fast...
...hurricane. In his book The Storm (Viking; 320 pages), out this week, Louisiana State University researcher Ivor van Heerden argues that Katrina wasn't the mythical Big One, a frightening conclusion for a city entering a new hurricane season. The storm made landfall east of New Orleans as a fast-moving Category 3, he notes, but the winds that lashed the city--weakened by wetlands and miles of subdivisions--registered only as a Category 1. Van Heerden, deputy director of the LSU Hurricane Center in Baton Rouge, warns that a slow-moving Category 3 hurricane passing west of the city...
...Shahar ’96 taught his students in “Positive Psychology” this semester, yesterday’s might have been the most surprising. When you are the instructor of an 856-student class and you find that the final exam is missing, run as fast as you can. At 9:15 a.m., the students in Harvard’s largest course this semester packed seven lecture halls across campus, waiting to take their test. At 10:15 a.m., they were still waiting. Ben-Shahar attributed the lack of exams to his misunderstanding that the registrar?...
...boats for Harvard. Some choose to eat carefully for most of the week; others, like Kauble, opt for a more radical approach.Most don’t drink water after a certain time on Thursday, and most plan a specific post-weigh-in snack for each weekend. The torturous Friday fast is shared by all, however, and I got a tell-all glimpse into what it’s like to be a lightweight on a Friday. By noon, I viewed everybody I saw eating or drinking as an ungrateful glutton. When I walked by Pinocchio?...
...That was the focus in court on Thursday when Reade Seligmann's lawyer pressed for lower bail and a speedy trial. "We want a trial as fast as we can get it," attorney Kirk Osborn said. "This young kid wants to go to school in the fall and he can't until this is resolved." By this time we had already heard about Seligmann's cab ride, ATM records, cell phone calls and dorm keycard all suggesting he could not have been present when the rape is supposed to have occurred. Osborn and the other defense lawyers have raised enough...