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...outside of HUPD’s domain and beyond administrators’ control. As a result, Kidd, though sensitive to Mahan’s concerns, told FM that she would rather focus on matters within the safety committee’s jurisdiction than become embroiled in a spat with the city...
...anything, though, the age-old keycard access spat is a diversion from the more important issue: cooperation between University officials, police officers, students and city politicians...
...Film Award for best actress), and a Chinese spy in Eddie Fong's The Last Princess of Manchuria. In the latter, she played the real-life title character Kawashima Yoshiko, who spied for the Japanese during the occupation, and Mui was cold steel personified. She slapped men's faces, spat out her scorn at those who would use, abuse or condemn her. At the end, facing a death sentence, she remained defiant: a ghost asserting her haunting hauteur...
...comment brought back memories of Menino’s previous spat with Harvard. When the University announced in 1997 that it had secretly purchased 52 acres in Allston as a safety valve to allow for further expansion, Menino furiously denounced Harvard for launching “a full-scale attack” on Boston, and doing so with “the highest level of arrogance seen in our city in many years.” In June, fearful of the popular (and populist) mayor turning up the rhetoric again, Alan Stone, Harvard’s vice president of government...
Zinberg credited Clark for his “carefully thought-out, sensible description” of his spat with Shelton. But she said that “with this group, he should be firing up their enthusiasm rather than rationalizing what was a major disappointment in his career...