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Boston has long been a metropolis resentful towards outsiders, and it takes little to be deemed foreign by the local establishment. When New England Patriots owner Robert K. Kraft proposed to move his franchise to South Boston, local politicians lashed out at Kraft’s proposal and lampooned him as an ignorant outsider—this despite his being from Brookline. Around the same time, de facto Red Sox chief John L. Harrington proposed to build a new stadium for his team. Although the stadium plans were ultimately shelved, local pols took the Hyde Park native seriously and agreed...
...seems too late: like all the most ridiculous celebrity stories the Big B v. SRK brouhaha has taken on a life of its own. In a wonderful illustration of globalization's reach, even U.S. satirist Stephen Colbert has helped fuel the dispute by featuring Bachchan and Khan - "the Indian Robert Redford and Brad Pitt only crank up the handsome and rip the knob off" - in his television show's celebrity feuds segment. Khan, Colbert said way back in early January, had failed to turn up to Bachchan's New Year's Eve party. And so the cycle of silliness continues...
...have enough worries about national security, Breach obliges us to think about the deeply weird (and by most of us half-forgotten) case of Robert Hanssen, the FBI agent who for a couple of decades enriched himself by passing classified documents to the Soviet Union as well as to its heirs and assigns. When he was arrested in 2001, his case seemed to be just another of those fairly routine lapses in security that afflict all great powers. Some people will spy. Some of them will get caught. Life tends to go on. Who knew how entertainingly, if sometimes scarily...
...course, and before that, 30. Its unprecedented popularity this semester forced Professor of History Sven Beckert and his teaching staff to relocate the course to Lowell Lecture Hall after students swarmed Sever 113 on the first day of class. However, space is still an issue, according to Robert C. Spang III ’09. “It took them a long time to move to a bigger location, and even in Lowell, people still have to sit in the aisles,” said Spang. Beckert wrote in an e-mail to The Crimson that his course...
However, that rebellion can push poets away from the school, as much as it can inspire them. Wallace Stevens, Robert Frost, Eliot, Robert Creeley and Charles Olsen were among the poets to leave Harvard before finishing a type of degree...