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...wake of the recent murder of 22-year old Io Nachtwey, the Cambridge City Council passed an order last night that called for increased law enforcement around the Harvard Square T-stop and asked for local social welfare groups to help youth associated with “the pit...
Nachtwey, who frequented the pit area, was stabbed to death on Nov. 3 in what police are calling a gang related murder...
...place around the T entrance, several amendments altered the language of the order. The final order, which the council passed unanimously, requested that groups ranging from the Cambridge Police Department to Youth Under Fire “extend the provision of services to users of ‘The Pit...
Wittgenstein and Popper were both from the intellectual hothouse of Vienna, and were pit bulls when it came to public debate. Both were Jewish, and both had their lives knocked off center by World War II. (Wittgenstein's life teems with odd coincidences: he went to high school with Hitler.) Despite their similarities, the two came from opposite ends of the philosophical universe, and the authors use the encounter to dramatize a clash of opposing ideas about the nature and purpose of philosophy itself. They make the meeting of Popper and Wittgenstein seem as fateful as that between iceberg...
...Middle East gig, Scheuer lived up to this expectation. He climbed the pipes on the ceiling and jumped down into the audience numerous times. The girls gyrating in the audience edged one another forward to get close to him. When he threw a disposable camera into the pit, they were eager to provide him with mementos of their presence at the show...