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...backpack and fired, wounding an officer in the hand. Police returned fire, hitting the spray painter and sometime television actor in the neck. A few suburbs away, police called in a helicopter with a heat-seeking camera to help locate father of five Mohamed Elomar, who hid in a park near his home in Condell Park. On Nov. 11, 25-year-old Izzydeen Atik was arrested after police stopped his car in a Sydney street...
...have a commitment from the construction company to preserve the area in a way that will eventually create more biodiversity by increasing the amount of water that enters the swamp.Ellen Mass, president of FAR, has been working to try to protect the area, a part of the Cambridge Discovery Park, for six years. She said that the organization was excited that the CFA was moving into the neighborhood.“We are very pleased that they came out,” she said, “because we feel that in the long run they will help to preserve...
...Harvard men’s and women’s cross-country teams concluded their seasons Saturday in the NCAA Northeast Regional Championships at Boston’s Franklin Park. The men finished eighth in the 33-team field, while the women placed ninth among 37 teams. Sophomore Lindsey Scherf placed fifth in the women’s event, qualifying for the NCAA Championships. Scherf paced the Crimson women with a time of 20:34.7, part of a pack of four women within seven seconds of winner Fiona Crombie of Providence. “We were all kind of fighting...
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...Coney Island, Ed Zander learned an early lesson in the value of hustle and patience. The son of a furrier in Bensonhurst, Brooklyn, Zander loved the Parachute Jump, the Silver Streak and, of course, the Cyclone. After school he and his brother would stand at the exit to Steeplechase Park for hours and charm people out of unused ride tickets, hoarding them in a rented locker. "We had, like, 3,000 free rides," Zander says. By summertime, they could spend all day in the park without ever buying a ticket...