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...attached to the city’s far-reaching organized crime problems. There’s Totò, the boy who hides a gun and bag of drugs during a police raid and is rewarded with initiation into a local gang, only to be sucked into the violence of neighborhood gang warfare. Franco is a waste management official who oversees the Camorra’s side business of illegally dumping toxic waste, poisoning the local farmland. And there’s Pasquale, the tailor who incurs the wrath of the Camorra when he helps a Chinese clothing sweatshop owner competing...
...Cambridge Center for Adult Education on Brattle Street -- familiar host to many a sketchy Harvard party -- has reportedly been slapped with a cease and desist order from the friendly neighborhood fire department. That means yet another rare Harvard Square party venue is rendered effectively dead, and as a result, Harvard groups that hoped to plan parties in the popular space are out of luck...
Following Harvard’s decision last month to slow construction of its much-anticipated Allston science complex, local residents have escalated demands for the University to lease its thousands of square feet of vacant properties in the neighborhood...
...Some local residents have long said that Harvard’s vacant properties reduce the attractiveness of the neighborhood and harm existing businesses, and that the businesses that have been brought in by the University do not cater to the needs of the community...
...Some neighborhood residents question the category’s legitimacy, calling it an attempt to disguise the true blight of vacancy in Allston...