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...Boston Police Department (BPD), he oversees 75,000 inhabitants in Allston and Brighton, an area that includes Harvard Business School and the Stadium. His district, containing Boston College and Boston University, is the most densely populated in the city, and his toughest task has been smoothing over town-gown relations...
Evans is also largely in charge of Operation Student Shield, a Boston initiative launched in January to cut out loud parties and public drinking—activities that can make town-gown relations tenuous...
...ELEPHANT IN THE CORNERA wrinkly missionary crashed Tuesday’s on-campus appearance by documentary filmmaker Errol Morris, taking a seat in the front row of Fong Auditorium and reading loudly from an old Bible. Clad in a white evening gown, the guest turned around ominously whenever anyone asked a question. The room breathed a collective sigh when she gathered her things and left. “Who was she?” Morris asked after making sure she was out of earshot. Jesus...
...that excuse his own fall from power. He sees Hitler as a poor administrator and a bad judge of human nature. It follows that his Volk hero is surrounded by "simpletons, mindless scum, and flatterers," most notably Himmler, Goebbels, and Gring, who greets Wagener in a red dressing gown and scarlet slippers with turned-up toes. To anyone familiar with office politics, this is a calculated rudeness. Wagener does not seem to get the message. Ever the intellectual snob, he sees Gring as a mental patient rather than a shrewd realist who knows the difference between theatricality...
Russia Talk Radio in Chicago has reported that Larry Summers will wear an evening gown for the rest of the year, according to Gadfly’s immigrant grandma. The gesture, the station said, will be an apology to the women in science he offended with his comments at NBER...