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During the meeting, multiple shots were fired in the basement of Kirkland J entryway. One of the shots struck Cosby and resulted in his death. Investigators later found marijuana and approximately $1,000 near Cosby’s body...

Author: By Manning Ding | Title: Murder Charge Dropped For One Shooting Suspect | 9/23/2009 | See Source »

...ticket. I gave it up as a lost cause for freshman year and much of sophomore year, but gradually, I learned ways to get around these obstacles. On-street and Harvard parking is unenforced in some places after hours and on weekends. There are a few streets, including one near the Quad, that do not require that you have a permit to park there. I carefully researched the options and requirements, and drove my car up from Maryland after spring break last year. I’ve had it here ever since, and have only gotten two parking tickets. It?...

Author: By David I. Fulton-Howard, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Revvin’ the Engine | 9/23/2009 | See Source »

...This final bill will have three major objectives: providing near-universal coverage, improving the quality of health-insurance policies, and controlling the cost of health care (often wonkishly referred to as “bending the cost curve”). Although the legislation is likely to accomplish the first two goals, stemming health-care inflation will prove more elusive...

Author: By Anthony P. Dedousis | Title: Unbendable? | 9/23/2009 | See Source »

...states fall all over themselves to try to get that kind of economic activity," says MGM-Mirage senior vice president Alan Feldman. "We'd be happy as a community to have someone do a $100 million tower." The project, however, has been plagued by mishaps: construction-worker deaths, a near bankruptcy, and defects at one tower, the Harmon, that resulted in plans to lop off its upper 21 stories. Meanwhile, the hiring is taking place as indicators across the city remain poor: room inventory is up slightly, but occupancy is off 6% vs. last year; room rates...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: How One Giant Casino Could Turn Around Vegas | 9/23/2009 | See Source »

...local Cantonese media - or most Hong Kongers, in general - seemed to care. Few representatives from Hong Kong's tabloid-driven press stood in the forlorn journalist pen outside the hotel. Shown a picture of Palin, a woman surnamed Ng, who operated a food stand near the Grand Hyatt, professed to not know who she was. "If she is rich and famous, then maybe she goes shopping nearby," said Ng from behind her counter. "Afterward, she can come eat my fishballs...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: What Sarah Palin Said in Her Hong Kong Speech | 9/23/2009 | See Source »

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