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...gangbuster nemesis of "Baby Face" Nelson, John Dillinger, Ma Barker. The scourge of would-be spies and saboteurs... The stubbornly independent guardian of evenhanded law enforcement, highmindedly fending off Congressmen and Presidents who sought to use his agency for political purposes. J. Edgar Hoover deserved some of that billing, although it was overblown... [Now] Hoover is seen as a shrewd bureaucratic genius who cared less about crime than about perpetuating his crime-busting image... He was a petty man of towering personal hates. There was more than a tinge of racism in his vicious vendetta against Martin Luther King...
...famed hamburger eatery, The Tastee. But soon The Bow and Arrow and even the Baskin Robbins that appeared in the movie disappeared. The past four years also saw the demise of that favorite first-year hangout, the Crimson Sports Grille, yuppie Grafton Street, and the pan-Asian restaurant Ma Soba. In the mean time, the Square has witnessed the arrival of Abercrombie & Fitch, Pacific Sunwear, Daedalus and Peet’s Coffee House. Soon Harvard Square will see the phoenix-like reappearance of Grafton Street, but not, unfortunately, before graduation...
When Kates was a student at Harvard Business School, friends say he gave out weekly joke awards. “Like the ‘Look, Ma, Two Hands!’ prize for someone who asked a professor a question and unabashedly answered it himself,” Tetzeli wrote. Kates earned his M.B.A. from the school...
...LOOK, MA, NO WIRES! Amazing Technology BlueGear networking kits ($129) offer one of the simplest ways to share files, peripherals and Internet access among several home PCs. Plug one into a PC's USB port, and it can wirelessly relay files to as many as eight Bluetooth-enabled devices. It's not the fastest wireless option, but it's the easiest on the wallet...
...Donnell Field, Cambridge, MA...