Word: knifepoint
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...year-old male was robbed at knifepoint last Thursday at approximately 6:30 p.m. on Prescott Street, according to the Harvard University Police Department (HUPD). An unidentified male approached the victim, who is working at the University but is not a summer school student, as the victim walked down Prescott Street. The male started a conversation with the victim, according to HUPD’s community advisory report. After several minutes, the male signaled to three male accomplices who were hiding. These three males surrounded the victim, and two of them pulled out knives and demanded he hand over...
...restrain a shocked yelp ("$900 Canadian!"). His female companion, whose menu displayed no prices, had only been able to guess how much anything cost by her partner's cringes as she ordered. I cringed, too. French haute cuisine is frequently underwritten - and then written off as mugging at Sabatier knifepoint - by hapless tourists. Since the late 18th century, when the Revolution cooked the goose of French nobles and left their former chefs with few options but to open restaurants, travelers have come to the republic to learn to eat. Trouble is, the cost of tuition has been skyrocketing...
...MAZAL AMAR, 58, and MEIR AMAR, 31, the wife and son of Israel's Sephardic Chief Rabbi Shlomo Amar, one of two leaders of the state religious establishment; with abducting the Rabbi's daughter's 17-year-old boyfriend; in Jerusalem. Meir has admitted to kidnapping the teenager at knifepoint and holding him overnight in an Arab village and later at the Rabbi's home, where he was allegedly beaten. But police suspect that it was done at the behest of his mother?something the family denies?who allegedly disapproved of the relationship. The Rabbi has not been implicated...
Majid Sayad, 29, of Cambridge, allegedly approached a homeless man and took his money at knifepoint at around 2 a.m. yesterday, CPD spokesman Frank T. Pasquarello said...
...Ariane Diaz was the state’s principal witness and only four years older than I. For a day and a half, we listened to her describe being abused. She said that she’d been cursed at, slapped, kicked, threatened and finally robbed at knifepoint and beaten up in public by a man she loved and willingly followed from home to home. She described a rape by her then-boyfriend: “I kept saying, ‘I don’t wanna have no sex.’” I looked left...