Word: swaps
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...January a delegation of senior bureau officials and big-city police chiefs traveled to Israel to swap intelligence. The talks "impressed on me the absolute necessity for the public's participation in reporting suspicious activity and events," says FBI Assistant Director Van Harp, head of the Washington field office. He and other top bureau hands have been meeting with Arab, Muslim and Sikh leaders to solicit tips about potential suspects in emigre communities--and to promise that hate crimes against their communities will be aggressively pursued...
Tenants of the Charlesview housing complex—located on a lynchpin property at the center of Harvard’s future Allston campus—want to be at the table for any land-swap negotiations between the University and the building’s board of directors, they said at a meeting last week...
...need to make sure we’re loud enough and wise enough to make [a land swap] beneficial to us,” she said. She added that the tenants hope to meet soon with representatives of the Boston Redevelopment Authority—the agency which oversees all building in Boston—to discuss tactics for making their voices heard during Harvard-Charlesview negotiations...
...tenants association doesn’t have a problem fixing things, but if the land swap with Harvard goes through, is it worth pouring $3 million into this place?” asked Giovanditto. “Considering what the [market-rate] tenants will have to pay, can you live with the mold for another year...
What's the appeal of the genre? Graduate student Ellen Jameson says painting puppies and sunsets with the kits she finds in New York City art-supply stores is "soothing. It's like a mindful meditation." Says marketing exec Jane Berk, who scours Los Angeles swap meets to find additions to her Western-themed collection of completed canvases: "They give you this comfortable feeling. When you are looking at them, you are transported back to Donna Reed time, when things seemed simpler...