Word: pit
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Procopio said that the case brought light to the contrast between Harvard and the people that hung around the “Pit,” the area outside the Harvard Square subway station...
...Suffolk Superior Court jury convicted all four suspects of murder on Thursday in the 2001 slaying of a homeless woman who lived in the Harvard Square “Pit,” ending a heated trial that saw sometimes conflicting testimony and lasted more than six weeks...
Procopio said that Parker and the Vasquez brothers were the leaders of a gang that had tried to recruit Nachtwey and some of her friends. But, Procopio said, when Nachtwey’s boyfriend, another “Pit kid” named Gene Bamford, and some other recruits refused to carry out orders from the gang leaders, the defendants struck back by raping and killing Nachtwey...
...more striking things about this case was the subculture of homeless youths that frequented the ‘Pit,’” he said. “It was just so striking to us that in the shadow of the world’s greatest university and a few blocks from Brattle Street and million-dollar homes that you had this band of runaways and drifters...
Where to find you on a Saturday night: pit concerts now that the weather is tolerable... or in my pseudo-room next door smoking hookah