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...Year is1932, and Diego, 17, a Mexican orphan, has been adopted by a gang of Coney Island, N.Y., con artists. He has been rechristened Ondoo by his mentors and trained to incant Hindu mumbo jumbo during the sances they stage to bilk millionaires on Long Island's Gold Coast. But their scams turn sour when a young girl goes missing, leaving a trail that leads to Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory and the dark chapter of its history that today's gene scientists don't like to talk about. Ford, who teaches literature at a New Jersey community college...
...sandwiched between New Orleans' downtown core and the historic Garden District. The neighborhood was dark for months after Katrina, but residents began returning in large numbers this spring, some to repair damaged homes and a dangerous few, law enforcement officials say, to stake out territory in the city's gang wars...
...blogosphere that first emerged to raise millions for Dean has grown and matured, and the gang of bloggers, commenters and readers has galvanized to be a small political force. Last weekend, as more than 800 laptop-toting lawyers, economists, teachers, housewives and others from around the country showed up for a Las Vegas convention put on by the liberal blog Daily Kos, they were joined by three members of Congress, four presidential candidates and at least seven staffers from the office of former Virginia Governor Mark Warner, one of the 2008 hopefuls. Warner spent thousands on a rooftop bash that...
...Lake Reservation—“Tha Rez,” he called it on his Facebook.com profile—and had been planning to return to Leverett House in the fall to write his economics thesis on Native American reservation cash flows. A RUN-IN WITH A GANG Meat’s friends were reluctant to reveal details of his death at the annual Harvard Powwow, where mourners placed money, tobacco, and wampum on a blanket to deliver to his family. Weeks before his death, Meat had been walking on a South Minneapolis street when members...
...observers of Harvard’s three-year-old curricular review, it’s déjà vu. In circumstances strikingly similar to those in which the “Gang of Five” —a group of academics who revised the recommendations of the Committee on General Education last summer—was formed, Dean of the Faculty William C. Kirby has selected six professors to retailor a set of general education proposals that have generated little enthusiasm among faculty members.It is one of the last official acts of the deanship for Kirby...