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...unidentified man seated in a parked car by the intersection of Putnam Avenue and Magee Street and fired several shots into the vehicle before fleeing. Police have not recovered a weapon or issued any warrants in connection with the shooting. Pasquarello said the motive behind this incident is still unknown but that investigators think it was also a targeted act. The victim survived and has been released from the hospital...
...postmodern man should also rediscover the art of the elegant rejoinder. Benjamin Disraeli, on the receiving end of an anti-Semitic slur in the British Parliament, had this to say: "Yes, I am a Jew, and when the ancestors of the Right Honorable Gentleman were brutal savages in an unknown island, mine were priests in the Temple of Solomon." Thank God, anti-Semitic attacks are no longer acceptable discourse in Europe. When we really want to clobber someone, we call him a Nazi or compare him to Hitler. But that doesn't play so well, as Berlusconi...
...arose around the shocking death last November of Bonnie Witherall, 31, a nurse's assistant at the Christian and Missionary Alliance pre-natal clinic in Sidon, Lebanon, a facility funded partly by Franklin Graham's Samaritan's Purse organization. One morning as she arrived to open the clinic, an unknown assailant shot her three times in the head. Her murder may have been simple anti-Americanism, since it followed one of Osama bin Laden's bellicose edicts. But the New York Times reported that members of the Alliance--which flew a banner emblazoned with the Arabic for "And Jesus said...
...We’re delighted that it happened really much more quickly—the process from start to finish—than is average for Harvard’s senior faculty recruitment,” he said. “It’s not unknown for it to take several years from the first nibble stage to when the person actually arrives...
There are many small mysteries—there’s the biotech lab facing Mass. Ave. which for some unknown reason hides its pipette-wielders from view with a set of cartoonish stained-glass windows. There’s the 50-something woman energetically doing calisthenics to hip-hop music blaring out of a store that sells everything, from luggage to sports jersey dresses...