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Leverett resident Josephine C. Navarro '93 is offering a free and confidential dating service to match Leverett House members and their admirers...
Students were asked to make a list of up ten residents they would like to "get to know better." Navarro said she will make the matches by today...
John Moody, our Rome bureau chief, covered the Vatican for this week's story and found it a complicated test of wills. "Approaching the Vatican is in itself an exercise in diplomacy. The Pope's urbane and practiced spokesman, Joaquin Navarro-Valls, initially considered our questions. After that came various monsignors who act as buffers for the Cardinals." Moody came to realize that the Vatican does not act quickly, when it comes to either social change or the needs of weekly journalism. He notes, "They have been at it for 2,000 years and know the art of prevailing through...
Many police departments have welcomed this deluge of attention. TV exposure, they reason, helps get out the message that cops are human too. "People used to think law enforcement was like Dirty Harry or Miami Vice," says Nick Navarro, sheriff of Florida's Broward County, north of Miami. "Shows like Cops let the American people see what the police are really like." John Cosgrove, a Kansas City, Kans., patrolman who was accompanied by a Cops crew on his midnight shift for two weeks last summer, enjoyed the experience. "Most officers would be apprehensive to have the media ride with them...
...seems to have a positive impact on police egos, however. Navarro, the Broward County sheriff, has become something of a celebrity from his appearances on Cops; he has been criticized in the local media for taking too many trips to promote the show. The lure of Hollywood money is also hard for cops to resist. In Florida's "Damsel of Death" case, in which Aileen Wuornos was accused of killing seven men who picked her up on the highway, three police investigators reportedly made an arrangement with Wuornos' lesbian lover to share in a TV-movie deal even before...