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...year old Jamaica Plain resident who says he was brutalized by Harvard University Police last month has taken his case to the streets, passing out over 5300 leaflets detailing his grievances...
...Drug Enforcement Administration chief ROBERT BONNER may want to begin circulating his resume. Bonner started the fight with "Operation Granite," a new drug- interdiction scheme he concocted for the Caribbean. Under a plan that one top Administration source calls "remarkably stupid," DEA would base 10 Black Hawk helicopters in Jamaica and the Dominican Republic for chasing down drug smugglers flying out of Colombia. One of Bonner's targets: drugs being air- dropped to boats. Customs and the Coast Guard objected, since they already operate large interdiction forces in the Caribbean. Besides, the air drops are declining, according to DEA information...
...addition to Lee, the department will bring writer Jamaica Kincaid and jazz musician Anthony Davis to campus as visiting scholars next year...
Quist speaks with a thick, richly layered voice--a voice resonant with the melodic rhythm of Jamaica, the bass note of Ghana, the clipped, soproper pronunciation of the BBC, and clangy Americanisms picked up during four years of college. He can be loud when he want. At the Union dining hall, friends used to ask him to get the attention of someone at the far end of the hall, which he would do with a shout. He is of medium height, muscled so that people ask what sport he plays, thinking maybe soccer, maybe track, maybe boxing. He wears shorts...
...always been a foreigner," says Quist. Hismother, a nurse from Jamaica, met his father, adoctor from Ghana, while the two were studying inEngland. Quist's family lived in a Midlands towncalled Lemmington Spa until he was eight, whenthey moved to Accra...