Word: wakefulness
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...Harvard University Police Department (HUPD) denied allegations that the University maintains an undercover political intelligence unit in the wake of two arrests that attracted the scrutiny of the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU...
...spends this money. Decker said that the lack of formal oversight of CHA allowed the Alliance to eliminate necessary ob-gyn services from its North Cambridge, Riverside, and Windsor Street clinics earlier this year. “It’s time for the Council to really wake up and stand up for women, especially low income women who have been losing health care services,” she said. The cutbacks come at a time when CHA is facing serious budgetary problems. In March, the health care provider cut 9 percent of its workforce, according to the Boston Globe...
...find out whodunit. This will involve getting info on the perps by grilling hood denizens (including Cedric "the Entertainer" Kyles in a fun turn), tangling with a skeptical Internal Affairs Captain (Hugh Laurie, essentially playing House on the streets) and leaving enough corpses in his wake to make the City of Angels seem like Baghdad-on-the-Pacific. It's L.A.P.D.-lirious...
...hear what it is he’s trying to say.” The former medieval studies major praised the HBO police drama “The Wire,” which he called “the greatest television ever,” for melding Finnegans Wake-like sophistication with social engagement. “When is television ever that difficult?” he asked. English professor and director Robert Scanlan called Kushner’s lecture a brilliant play “crafted from beginning to end.” Kushner’s central theme...
...announcer on Burmese state television only had two sentences to offer, but they were supposed to herald good news. On May 10th, he declared, Burma would hold a constitutional referendum, giving citizens a rare chance to participate in the political process. In the wake of global condemnation of crushed protests last year, Burma's secretive junta had apparently committed itself to a modicum of reform. Among the first steps would be a plebiscite on the army-drafted charter. (The previous constitution was torn up by the junta 18 years ago, and the country has operated without a basic law since...