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What is different about our situation now is the large number of illegal immigrants and the unparalleled ease of getting here, whether from next-door Mexico or anyplace with airports. A handful of immigrants may be dangerous in precisely the way Otis imagined; the alleged Fort Dix plotters are from Jordan, Turkey and the former Yugoslavia. The vast majority who come here looking for work may feel the renewing force of assimilation less if they live in a ceaseless stream of their compatriots...
Detectives and military people have a saying about their line of work: "Assumption is the mother of all f___ ups." When the 911 call came in at 7:15, campus police headed to West AJ, where they found a freshman, Emily Hilscher ("Pixie" on her MySpace page), and her next-door neighbor, residential adviser Ryan Clark, shot to death. Students told police a gunman had been going from room to room, looking for his girlfriend. Assuming they were dealing with a lovers' quarrel, police secured the murder scene and began gathering evidence. The crime was over, the investigation begun...
...told: I never laid a hand on your daughter, sir. Something you’ve always wanted to tell someone: Remember that time I told you I never touched your daughter? Well, I didn’t. I had sex with your wife. Favorite childhood toy: Maggie Sullivan, my next-door neighbor. Sexiest physical trait: My tiny penis. It’s soo cute! Favorite part about Harvard: Studying abroad. Describe yourself in three words: Come see RAPUNZEL In 15 minutes you are: Telling my TF to hurry up and put her clothes back on so we?...
...other universities, the Boston accent is not simply a reflection of one’s upbringing, but a symbol of Boston pride. My next-door neighbor, a current sophomore at Northeastern University, never had a Boston accent growing up. Peculiarly, he affected one during his freshman year in college. According to him, this linguistic metamorphosis was inspired by a desire to prove to his classmates that he is a local...
...Even when the brain suffers a trauma late in life, it can rezone itself like a city in a frenzy of urban renewal. If a stroke knocks out, say, the neighborhood of motor cortex that moves the right arm, a new technique called constraint-induced movement therapy can coax next-door regions to take over the function of the damaged area. The brain can be rewired...