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...Menino: The long-time mayor of Boston, seeking to be elected to an unprecedented fifth term next Tuesday, is under fire from his opponent for a “culture of corruption” in City Hall...

Author: By The Crimson Staff | Title: Crimson Wisdoms | 10/30/2009 | See Source »

While Kucharczyk clearly possesses the fire to compete in Division I, she still faces the challenge of learning the technicalities of both sports—the plays, the rules, and the formations—in an environment where most of her teammates focus on just one skill...

Author: By B. marjorie Gullick, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Kucharczyk Welcomes Challenge of Two Teams | 10/29/2009 | See Source »

According to Alexa Manocchio, a Cambridge police public information officer, the Cambridge Police received a call around 5 p.m. that residents were in possession of an old cannonball. According to a Cambridge Fire Department report, fire department units were dispatched...

Author: By Xi Yu, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Bomb Squad Called To Fetch Cannonball | 10/28/2009 | See Source »

...Public safety is the primary goal,” said James F. Burns, public information officer for the Cambridge Fire Department. He said the department had responded to calls about old hand grenades and pistols but that this was the first cannonball removal he had encountered...

Author: By Xi Yu, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Bomb Squad Called To Fetch Cannonball | 10/28/2009 | See Source »

...anti-Sikh riots were four days of mayhem in the northern parts of India, particularly Delhi, in which armed mobs set fire to Sikh homes and businesses, killed unarmed men, women and children and attacked gurdwaras, Sikh places of worship. The violence, which left almost 3,000 people dead, was a reaction to the assassination of the country's Prime Minister, Indira Gandhi, on Oct. 31, 1984, by her two Sikh bodyguards, Beant Singh and Satwant Singh. Earlier, in June, Gandhi had approved Operation Bluestar, a mission to flush out Sikh separatists who had amassed weapons in the Golden Temple...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: India's 1984 Anti-Sikh Riots: Waiting for Justice | 10/28/2009 | See Source »

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