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...Cambridge residents void complaints against the Harvard force Police Chief Johnson told the Cambridge City Council last year and had reiterated this year that if anyone has bone to pick, his "door is always open. But Johnson may have to install swinging doors and borrow extra time to field the complaints in addition to his normal duties. An established review board would be much more practice than informal meetings with the Police Chief for addressing citizen concerns Powerful public agencies like the police need surefire checks and balances, now isolated protestations of concern...
...seen in the history of Western civilization, he convinces the Devil that the sun has come up, that time is up. All is found to be complete except for one item specifically mentioned in the contract--a black cat; but no cat, no soul, the contract is null and void, the Devil loses, and Nicholas is allowed to keep his soul. Such were the days before Federal E. press...
...Zone, a resourceful handling of football and nuclear war, brought him wide and serious attention. But without bestseller sales figures or a dependable cult following, he has become something of a reviewer's writer, a provider of topical allegories ripe for explanation and interpretation. Great Jones Street confronted the void of celebrity, and Ratner's Star measured the gap between science and humanity. There were terrorists in Players, spies and pornography in Running Dog and cult killers in The Names...
Second, the FDIC may have created an unnecessary void in Continental Illinois's management by replacing more than half of the bank's board. Finding qualified replacements may be difficult, at least in the short run. However, this should be a temporary situation, a justified cost for attempting to discipline the industry. In fact, look for retired managers of other large money center banks and former government officials to populate Continental Illinois' board in the future...
...PRESS PACKET for the movie opens with the lines "For how many years did we gaze into the night sky, wondering 'Are we indeed alone? Is man nothing more than an accident in the Universe, an orphan race lost forever in the void of space?'" This movie hardly seems capable of answering such profound questions. It is too stereotypical and too simplistic to address effectively these philosophical perplexities. The few hours go by pleasantly enough, and there are some suspenseful moments that will keep you on the edge of your seat, but don't expect anything like...