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...arrived, located the individual, and conducted a field interview. The individual was checked for wants and warrants with negative results and placed the individual under arrest for trespassing. 3/12/09 1:51 p.m.—Officers were dispatched to take a report of an unwanted guest sleeping in the foyer of 1430 Massachusetts Ave. Officers arrived, located the individual, and checked for wants and warrants with negative results. Cambridge Police Department officials arrived and took over the handling of the incident. 9:06 p.m.—An officer took report of an assault at Thayer Gate. The officer...
...impertinent. A faith in what I knew I deserved was firing me up. Like I had that great piece of news I’d heard before anyone else. How it bore me on! Then I was past the Negro section and had thrown open both doors.Breezing into the foyer, I almost smiled as I gulped down big breaths of relief. I’d nearly spun a full circle before I spotted the stack of hymnals. With both hands I grabbed the one on top. I was already turning to the right page (Hymn 138 praise...
...going to do about this Negro Problem.”Well, I could have cared less about this Negro Problem (was it one in particular or all of them?). But I did let my noodle think on it once Daddy and I squeezed in to the foyer. What else could I do as I waited there, horrified that someone’s condolence was about to explode on top of me?Daddy talked and talked away. I didn’t begrudge him his negotiating if rice prices were as crummy as he said. But was this my grand...
...Seven years later, Washington celebrated the opening of the John F. Kennedy Center, a white marble extravaganza designed by Edward Durrell Stone, the era's go-to guy for Establishment swank. Within a single vast building, it held three theaters and a grand foyer that's one of the biggest rooms in the world. But it was also cut off from the city behind a rat's nest of roads and highways...
...Afghan government seems largely unwilling to curtail the power of the warlords, whose wealth and influence have only increased in the new Afghanistan. These days, Dostum strides across the marble-inlay floors of his new mansion--a pink, three-tiered wedding cake of a house. The foyer boasts a massive aquarium stocked with exotic fish, next to a life-size portrait of Dostum standing beside U.S. General Tommy Franks. During a visit by TIME, workmen were putting the final touches on an immense gold-painted crown that spans the compound's entry gate. The crown was modeled on that...