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...already quickly approaching its third year. Even so, this change of plans will at least symbolically mend relations between Cambridge citizens and the University. Harvard's willingness to negotiate with its town about the Knafel Center-rather than strut to city hall with its $19 billion endowment in tow-will hopefully open an era of negotiation and dialogue between the city and the University...
...resident reported that while towing a car, the car's owner grabbed a slim jim and hit the victim. When the victim hopped in the tow truck and attempted to escape, the owner pulled out a handgun and fired a shot into the tow truck...
...empty, thy proud tow'rs wreathed in gloom...
...Tonight, as the clock in the Square shows 2 a.m., a herd of tow trucks descends on Mass. Ave. The city sweeps the streets early in the morning, and anyone who has left their car out overnight faces a tow and a $100 fine. The tow trucks whoosh down the street like giant insects, pausing only briefly to grab a car before vanishing into the night...
Marty's windsurf from Dakar, Senegal, to French Guiana took 37 days. He refused even to allow his support boat to tow him while he slept: "I didn't want to gain a single mile unless my wrists and arms felt it," he later told a magazine interviewer. "For me, freedom is being able to choose my own challenges. I am not afraid of losing, because there are honorable defeats." Among them, surely, his defeat last week...