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...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...
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
...vast mosaic that exposes but does not explain the mystery of extermination. Many of the details are riveting. Former SS Officer Franz Suchomel (whom Lanzmann filmed with a camera concealed in his shoulder bag) sings the Treblinka marching song--"No Jew knows that today"--and describes a pit that consumed discarded bodies: "There was always a fire in the pit. With rubbish, paper and gasoline, people burn very well." Auschwitz Survivor Rudolf Vrba manages a smile of roguish irony as he recalls the Germans' insistence that Jewish corpse carriers must always be "running . . . They are a sporty nation...
...thoughts on Fenway. It wasn't hard. When we transitioned to the Mass Pike via the toll booths, there was a large metal sign saluting the New England Patriots, World Champions, as we approached, and then the Boston Red Sox, World Champions, as we exited. We made a pit stop near Framingham and everyone-everyone-milling about at the McDonald's and Dunkin' Donuts counters was wearing Sox garb-a hat, a sweatshirt, some with the world champs information and some proudly antique. One guy wore a Pats jersey, but looked like he knew he had made a mistake...
Excited by the Americans’ victory—or perhaps the result of a bet—the Yale team celebrated by throwing their coach, David Shoehalter, into the water pit used for the steeple chase...