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...Weekend after weekend at school, I move between the same few haunts within the same three-mile radius (a generous estimate). I’ve made the “arduous” commute into Boston maybe four or five times a year, the rest of the time too absorbed in the same old campus events and parties and papers that litter my weekends. This summer, my renewed appetite for travel and sight-seeing emphasizes the way in which it had paled in the past few years, as I ignored the area around me: Cambridge, Boston, New England...
...last two weeks, attacks have risen threefold in Samarra and the areas just outside the city, says Luong. There used to be roughly two attacks per day in Samarra and the farming towns around it. Now there are five to six attacks per day in the same radius, Luong says. Moreover, the insurgents on the scene around Samarra now are fighting with better tactics, a sign to Luong that experienced newcomers are increasingly part...
...growth of craft beer also mirrors a broader focus on artisanally produced and local foods, from arugula in salads at McDonald's to increasingly popular 100-mile diets, restricted to food produced within a short radius of home...
...Ticknor Lounge with insults and epithets on Saturday as they faced off in Outwit, a freestyle rap competition. The event pitted the rappers against one another in three-minute matchups during which the competitors rapped over a beat played by Darius P. Felton ’08, a.k.a. DJ Radius. The competition was sponsored by Tuesday Magazine and The Darker Side, a weekend music program on WHRB, Harvard’s student-run radio station. The rapping mostly consisted of personal insults. “This is ‘Bennie Els,’ I play on the lyrical...
...situation, in some infamous situations mandatory sentencing requirements can lead to punishments that are wildly disproportionate from the offense. The example most familiar to Harvard students is a Massachusetts law that adds at least two years to a drug sentence if the violation occurred within a 1,000-foot radius of a school property. Ten of Harvard’s houses count as within such an area, as does most of the City of Boston. Other examples are even starker. Genarlow Wilson, for instance, is serving 10 years for what all parties agree was consensual oral sex because under Georgia...