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...next hour and a half in a sitting room at the Soviet mission, where they sipped tea and Reagan cracked a few jokes,[*] Shultz and Shevardnadze sorted through the unresolved issues. At 5 p.m. they returned to their bosses. Determined to salvage an agreement, Gorbachev rattled off some rapid-fire instructions to his underlings and told them to go back to work and report later that evening. "That's what their job is," he shrugged to Reagan. "We will be in a good mood after dinner...
Perhaps the biggest lesson from the rapid rebound in Los Angeles gang murders, say cops and other gang experts, is that aggressive policing alone will never break the cycle of gang violence. Father Greg Boyle, a Jesuit priest who works in gang-infested Boyle Heights, says the antigang strategy developed in California and copied elsewhere "is bankrupt. You have the three-strikes law and jail and so on, but you can't terrify a kid into being hopeful about his future." Many cops agree. "We don't need new laws," says Sergeant Wes McBride, founder of the California Gang Investigators...
...With the rapid departure of top personnel over the past few years, Harvard might continue to move toward a more externally managed system without eliminating the management company entirely...
Cars and buses coming from Harvard Square must currently use the Larz Anderson Bridge to cross the Charles River, but the report looks closely at several proposals for making the crossing easier for pedestrians, bikers, cars, and rapid transit...
...firm support of Rubin and Gray may have been enough to protect Summers’ job, but with his leadership challenged, the president maintains another key advantage: in a period of extraordinarily rapid turnover, Summers had overseen the appointment of half the Corporation in just four years, molding a body more amenable to his leadership than even the group that picked him. When Nannerl O. Keohane, the former president of Wellesley College and Duke University, takes over for Gray on July 1, just two fellows from the era before Summers will remain on the Corporation...