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Howe recalls the final day of last year’s weeklong Pudding trip to New York City. Before traveling on to Bermuda for the last leg of the Pudding’s tour, Howe needed to return the rented truck that had been used to transport props and costumes from Boston...
...Pudding had replaced a lock on the back door of the truck and subsequently lost the key, and the rental agency would not take the truck back. With the flight to Bermuda leaving soon, Howe desperately needed to get the lock removed...
...early enough in the morning that most businesses were still closed, so Howe did what any resourceful Harvard student would do—he took the truck to an illegal chop shop. There he encountered the proprietor of the establishment, who was in the midst of using the bathroom with the door open...
...trouble is, very little of this kind of thing is incontrovertible proof of anything. Bush's mobile lab may look like a high-topped recreational vehicle. The dump-truck launchers probably won't be loaded with suspect missiles that fly beyond the permissible 93-mile range. And some of the suspect imports do have legitimate dual uses to make fertilizer or vaccines...
...helping to nix the tunnel, the City of Cambridge and its residents sentenced themselves to increased foot and truck traffic around the CGIS. Two separate buildings require two loading docks for trucks, but only one would have been needed if the complex had a tunnel. Neighborhood activists also foolishly passed up what Harvard claimed was a $5 million bargaining concession, including a million-dollar parcel of land designated for a park, a $300,000 donation to the neighborhood and a five-year moratorium on construction by Harvard in nearby blocks...