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...bombing of the Times building: "The first person to rush to the scene was a man wearing a woman's floral dress and a blond wig. Los Angeles police detective Eddie King had been working an undercover detail that night trying to catch the Boyle Heights rapist. Throughout the summer, the rapist had been targeting women in the Boyle Heights neighborhood, and the police, with no clues and conflicting descriptions of the assailant, had decided to bait a trap with a decoy. But king, a hulking six-footer crammed into a tentlike dress and wearing a garish blond wig that...
When the rock 'n' roll pianist and former Ben Folds Five frontman recorded his new solo album, Way to Normal, he knew it would get leaked to the Internet, so he went ahead and did it himself - well, sort of. This summer, Folds released six "fake" songs on the Internet and pretended that they were tracks off his album. The fake songs bore the same titles as tracks on the album, but contained completely different lyrics and music. The real Way to Normal dropped on Sept. 30; the fake versions are available wherever music is freely downloaded. Folds talked...
Spotted: Girls in flattering summer dresses, guys in button-downs, and faculty in their “cool” clothes. Oh, when it’s only the first week of classes and every one is dressed to impress, when the Harvard community once again starts out the year with a big, fashion-savvy bang. Yummy? As I scurry to class in my loose silk blouse and navy shorts along with a pair of flashy flats (an eye-catching outfit, if I do say so myself), I am surprised to see that I do not stick out?...
When Edward C. Forst ’82 left Goldman Sachs this summer to become Harvard’s first executive vice president, it appeared he had left the finance world behind—until an old friend called. “We had a fabulous three weeks with him,” University President Drew G. Faust in an interview Friday afternoon. “Then the secretary of the treasury called and said I need to draft him to come save the nation.” Forst is helping Secretary of the Treasury Henry M. Paulson, his erstwhile...
...safe,” Benowitz said. Chapman and Gehrke said they were concerned for the safety of students. “Two intrusions and three laptops stolen in one week is really alarming,” Chapman said. Gehrke described new security features added to Quincy House over the summer, such as the new ID cards and card readers, as well as new firedoor alarms. “Our staff will be meeting to review security in the House,” Gehrke said. —Staff writer Alexander R. Konrad can be reached at akonrad@fas.harvard.edu...