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Towne said that the committee was not created in direct response to concerns about crime on campus that have been raised following a rash of recent local assaults. However, she said she would try to make sure the task force kept security considerations in mind...

Author: By Paveljit S. Bindra, | Title: Task Force to Study Shuttle | 4/23/1991 | See Source »

...commissioner says he realizes that he will face tensions of another sort when he arrives in Cambridge. The city has endured a rash of violence the past few weeks, including a rape and two stabbings, one of them fatal, in the Harvard vicinity...

Author: By Jonathan Samuels, | Title: Top Cop Is Keen to Work With City | 4/17/1991 | See Source »

Cambridge City Manager Robert W. Healy referred to the series of crimes as "a spree, a rash." And several observers theorized that the crime wave was an unfortunate side-effect of the coming of spring...

Author: By Ira E. Stoll, | Title: Crime Wave | 4/12/1991 | See Source »

...also questioned the need for such a bill. "Regardless of legislation, it probably won't change what colleges do," Sullivan said. And Sullivan predicted a rash of legal problems involving the release of students' names...

Author: By Yin Y. Nawaday, | Title: Crime Bill Likely to Pass | 4/3/1991 | See Source »

Though Yeltsin fits the label of populist, he possesses a depth of character and an integrity that make him much more than a Huey Long in a Siberian fur hat. Like many populists, Yeltsin has made his share of rash promises -- to provide all Muscovites with an apartment by the year 2000, say, or to achieve a measurable improvement in living standards in two years. But unlike most, Yeltsin has taken his political lumps and recovered from them. He has perceptibly matured from the brash, almost bullying Moscow party boss of 1987, who boasted that he fired...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Portrait of A Populist | 3/25/1991 | See Source »

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