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...jail, and broken out armed only with a gun carved out of soap. He even owned a pet cougar. But Connor is most notorious as a master of the art heist—so notorious that he was suspected of the 1990 robbery of the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum while incarcerated...
...According to Jade C. Gardner, a Memorial Hall staff member, the building is alarmed and under constant patrol surveillance. “Security does patrol this area during the day and during the night,” she says. Like the others, she cites the direct line to HUPD as a security asset. “We call them, they come right away,” she says. Still, Annenberg is filled with sculptures and paintings but appears to lack high-security doors; Gardner was also unsure as to whether or not the security guards were armed...
...find Boston Common, where you can trek the Freedom Trail, skate at Frog Pond during the winter, or watch a movie at Loews Cinema. If you wait for the E train, you can ogle at paintings at the Museum of Fine Arts or the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum. Be careful at Park Street, since not every train that comes will take you to your desired destination...
...1980s, psychologists like Howard Gardner proposed theories that later rationalized new methodologies in pedagogy, prioritizing the creativity of the American student over his or her ability to perform under pressure. With the theory of “multiple intelligences” firmly in place, parents willingly took to shuttling kids off to soccer games, painting lessons, summer camps, and dance recitals. In high school and college, these interests turned into extracurriculars, which de-emphasized textbook learning but worked to contribute to the student’s growth as an individual. It is perhaps a luxury of America?...
...themes in this quintet of first-person narratives are those of failure and unfulfillment - of lives having to settle for second best. "Crooner" is narrated by Janeck, who plays guitar in Venice's tourist cafés. He spots Tony Gardner, a schmaltzy crooner whose heyday is well behind him, and gets roped into accompanying the singer while he serenades his wife, Lindy, from a gondola. What begins for Janeck as an unprecedented honor, in being party to a famous man's romantic outpouring, modulates to the realization that the gesture is despairing and valedictory. Lindy, now divorced from Gardner...