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Nero said last week that she decided in her capacity as the director of Academy Homes Summer Youth Enrichment Program that it was her responsibility to obtain first-aid kits prior to a sleepover with her campers, ages 7 to 13. Nero said she drove the van in order to pick up the kits, and was then careful to inform Smith about...
Editors assigned the project to Colton and three other underage summer interns, who were instructed to obtain fake IDs from "storefront operations" in order to purchase alcohol, according to Alfred S. Larkin Jr., The Globe's managing editor for administration...
...weren't warned. Anyone who memorized tomes of Harvard minutia to obtain the privilege to be a shill for the administration is probably not a good nighttime companion in the first place, but we were bored...
Nonetheless, Senators Mitchell and Chafee this week will resume their efforts to amend Chafee's bipartisan "mainstream" bill in ways that might attract majority support. One of the bill's most controversial provisions would reduce the federal-tax break for many of those who obtain health insurance through their employers. This tax subsidy costs the Treasury $74 billion a year, fuels health-care inflation and disproportionately benefits workers with the most generous health plans. Capping this tax break is widely considered good policy but bad politics, and is unlikely to win the approval of more than 40 Senators...
When FBI director Louis Freeh visited Moscow last month, he told cadets and faculty of the Russian Police College that "one criminal threat looms larger than the others: the theft or diversion of radioactive materials in Russia and Eastern Europe." Organized-crime groups, he warned, would try to obtain such materials "to be offered for sale to the highest bidder." The Russian daily Izvestia makes the same judgment. It reported recently that more than 5,500 criminal gangs were operating in Russia, and "the lion's share of their operations involve stealing fissionable nuclear materials and smuggling them...