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Though Mt. Auburn Cemetery doesn’t often make the top list of haunted places in Massachusetts, the final resting place of local luminaries still makes it a great, if slightly tame, Halloween destination. Located just two miles west of Harvard Square, Mt. Auburn Cemetery claims on its website that it is “one of the most beautiful and historic landscapes in America.” A walk along silent Indian Ridge Path, surrounded by the dappled reds and yellows of its autumn trees and the stately mausoleums of Henry Wadsworth Longfellow and Henry Cabot Lodge, confirms...
...While tame compared to the Great Lamont Dessert Riot of 2005, a few hundred students turned out for last Thursday’s grand opening of the Penthouse Coffee Bar in Hilles Library. As one female undergrad yelled to a friend, “They’re just, like, giving away sandwiches...I’m going to go get my bag!” The Penthouse Coffee Bar is part of the new Student Organization Center at Hilles (SOCH) located on the fourth floor. Open Sunday to Thursday from 8 p.m. to 2 a.m., the café specializes...
Zillow has partnership agreements with Microsoft (for satellite imagery), Yahoo! (for links on the portal's real estate site) and Google (for ads). That could set the stage for a longer-term deal--or an acquisition--down the road. Meanwhile, to tame the chaos characteristic of early start-ups, Barton has set some limits. "We have foosball and air-hockey tables," he says, "but we don't have dogs running around...
...military will also be recruiting for its Judge Advocate General’s Corps at Harvard Law School tomorrow. But Lambda, the Law School gay rights organization, has planned comparatively tame protests in response...
...electoral college. But a bigger challenge for Estonia's future may be the past. The nation still nurses deep wounds. Ethnic Russians comprise about one-quarter of Estonia's population, many of them the families of people shipped in during the Soviet period as part of a program to tame the country's irredentism. Since Estonian independence, thousands of these Russians have passed an exam to become naturalized Estonians. But some 130,000, almost 10% of the population, haven't, and officials reckon that about half of them don't want to. Open interethnic conflict is rare, but relations with...