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Last Monday's crime was an anomaly in Cambridge, which reported a 41 percent drop in rapes over the first three quarters of 1999. That drop continues a near constant 10-year downward trend in so-called "stranger rapes." Acquaintance rapes, where the victim knows the attacker, are more common...

Author: By Garrett M. Graff, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Central Square Rape Prompts HUPD Advisory | 11/29/1999 | See Source »

According to the Cambridge Police Department (CPD), the victim was standing at the intersection of Mass. Ave. and Pearl Street around 3:45 p.m. when she was grabbed from behind by a stranger and taken into the hallway of an office building. She was then sexually assaulted...

Author: By Garrett M. Graff, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Central Square Rape Prompts HUPD Advisory | 11/29/1999 | See Source »

...wonder a growing number of people just want to hide out. Louis Rittmaster of Fort Lauderdale, Fla., is no stranger to Champagne celebrations; each year he heads to an apartment he owns in New York City to toast the ball drop. But this time, the 59-year-old retiree is instead heading to Yogaville, Va., for a two-day silent retreat. "This year had to be different," Rittmaster says. "It was either this or be in the ocean for a swim at midnight." Meanwhile, at midnight, south of downtown Los Angeles, LaRonda Calloway, 45, of Culver City, Calif., will attend...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Auld Lang Sigh | 11/29/1999 | See Source »

Friedman is also no stranger to the Clintons--the first family stays at his Vineyard estate during their annual summer vacation...

Author: By Daniel P. Mosteller, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: First Lady Schedules Local Visit | 11/24/1999 | See Source »

...Those who want to revive their childhood reactions to this spooky but charming ghost story should rerent the Disney cartoon. Sleepy Hollow in Burton's hands is a darker, stranger, cheaper shade of horror. It's less clippety-cloppety, more blood-spattery. Irving's simple three-main-character plot gives way to a convoluted collection of Van Tassles and other conniving townspeople who sustain an even more convoluted chain of mysterious events for the investigative Ichabod to logically piece together. More of a saga and certainly scarier and gorier than the original tale, the film version maintains an oddly light...

Author: By Sarah L. Gore, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Sleepy Hollow, Creepy Hollow | 11/19/1999 | See Source »

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