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Still, it would be wrong to take the 'police state' metaphor too far. Because when a young man approaches one of the officers stationed near the Science Center and asks "Where's the protest?" the cop doesn't take the comment as a challenge to her authority, or that of the police power she represents. She doesn't bust his knee caps or even give him a dirty look...
According to Epps, he had originally given the protesters permission to occupy space near the Science Center, but was later forced to reverse his decision for security reasons...
Paul Korchin, GSAS 5th year, Dept. of Near...
While crossing the street with four friends near her dormitory, Micheletti was hit by a Porsche driven by Ferras Binladen of Charlestown, Mass., said Massachusetts State Police officials. Another car also hit her immediately afterwards, but fled the scene...
...hard stuff began. With Walsh, Williams and other members of the building committee, Meier went all over the world studying museums and monuments, from the Certosa near Florence to the Glyptothek in Munich, from the Villa Lante in Bagnaia (a distant memory of whose watercourse is preserved in one of the Getty's gardens, designed by the California artist Robert Irwin) to key American museums, such as the National Gallery in Washington and the Yale Center for British Art. "This," says Meier dryly in his memoir Building the Getty, to be published next month by Random House, "generated a great...