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...Harvard University Police Department (HUPD) officers were dispatched to Gund Hall on the report of a missing wallet. During the investigation, two additional wallets were found in the men's room trashcan. Officers checked the area for a suspicious person but found none...

Author: By Joseph P. Flood, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Police Log | 4/16/2001 | See Source »

...member of the group threw a metal trashcan at the individual, hitting him in the head. Others shouted homophobic slurs...

Author: By Garrett M. Graff, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Senior Assaulted in Possible Hate Crime Incident | 9/21/2000 | See Source »

...history at Columbiaand then worked in Tokyo. It was after his returnfrom Tokyo that Golden began writing a novel abouta Japanese friend. While researching the characterof his friend's mother, a retired geisha, Goldenfound he was writing about the wrong subject andswitched his focus completely. 750 pages went intothe trashcan, and he wrote 800 pages about 35years in the life of a geisha that were declared"dry." Golden then threw out another 750 pages, anact which he called "exhilarating," and then aftera week-long anxiety attack, decided that this wasa story about "a world" and one that needed to betold...

Author: By Christina B. Rosenberger, | Title: THE BOOK: MEMOIRS OF A GEISHA | 2/26/1999 | See Source »

Johnson accompanied himself using a trashcan as a drum...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Amnesty International Protests Holiday | 10/13/1998 | See Source »

...portly man wearing no shirt interrupts the dialogue as he nears. Behind the bench, he picks through a trashcan with his wooden cane. He swats at the trash using the cane, knocking pieces along the ground with his one-handed golf swing...

Author: By Jonathan B. Stein, | Title: BUS STOP: | 4/9/1998 | See Source »

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