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Puzzled outsiders and furious supporters of law and order often felt they were witness to a heist of the body politic. The immediate causes of upheaval were frequently petty. At Columbia, a protest over the university's affiliation with a war-research institute and its planned encroachment on a ghetto park turned into a six-day occupation of campus buildings. At San Francisco State University, a battle over the suspension of a part-time instructor led to months of strikes, demonstrations and clashes with police. The spokespersons of revolt -- they came from nowhere -- were doctoral candidates in confrontation, who skillfully...
...hold-up was the city's fourth bank robbery in recent weeks, Cambridge Police said, with the latest heist occuring two days earlier at a North Cambridge BayBanks. Police believe the robberies to be unrelated, investigating officer Sgt. Feidelle Centrella said, as witnesses report different notes...
Hiller concocts elaborate electronic toys to amuse the boy and an equally complex running fairy tale to divert him from his loss. Their unsentimental relationship is developed with a clarity that makes a shining contrast with the instinctive violence of their criminal associates and the devilish complexity of the heist. Hiller's contributions to the proceedings are as witty as the toys he builds for True, and the denouement of the whole tale is gratifying. But it is constant, often startling, shifts in the film's emotional tone, the economy of its writing and its lively movement through the - bleak...
...break-in was reported two nights ago at the main Building and Grounds maintenance yard. A steam shovel, a blowtorch, and 100,000 square feet of sod were the only items taken as a result of the heist, the first such heist of this scale in recent memory...
Officials are not saying when the heist took place, but sources say that it could have happened up until ten days ago, the last time a full inventory was taken...