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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...resident of Dunster House reported his wallet was stolen from his coat in a club on Holyoke Street. The thief stole $50, his ATM card, checks, and his driver's license...

Author: By Marc J. Ambinder, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Police Log | 4/8/1998 | See Source »

...Adams House senior exiting the shower surprised a thief in the process of dismantling his roommate's stereo. A television set was stolen from an adjoining room that night...

Author: By Renee J. Raphael, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Students' Property Stolen in Lowell House Larcenies | 3/11/1998 | See Source »

...Carey's plot. But, as befits a mock-19th century novel, there are many fascinating exfoliations. All of Carey's major characters come equipped with vivid childhoods--not just Maggs, thrown on a Thames mud flat as an infant and adopted in order to be trained as a thief, or Oates, humiliated and impoverished young by a feckless father. There is also Mercy Larkin, who befriends Maggs and who was sent into prostitution when barely more than a child by her own mother...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Fulfilling Expectations | 2/23/1998 | See Source »

...what police called a crime of opportunity, a thief pressed his hand on the back of his female victim, intimated he had a gun and then grabbed her purse and ran. The woman was walking alone through the Littauer Center parking lot last Thursday night when the robbery occurred. The suspect fled towards Massachusetts...

Author: By Marc J. Ambinder, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Purse Snatcher Strikes | 2/20/1998 | See Source »

...There's no comparison relative to one place having half a dozen of what could be called real masterpieces and the other one maybe 50 to as many as 100," Connor says. He also knew that the Gardner had no theft insurance--the last thing a thief needs; no insurance company to sell a stolen painting back to. And he "had inside information" about an insured Rembrandt hanging on loan in the Museum of Fine Arts, an institution with serious "political clout" that would send up "a huge hue and cry" and therefore was "the much, much more desirable place...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE GREAT ART CAPER | 11/17/1997 | See Source »

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