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...were then ordered to produce Harvard identification cards. I watched the police officer grab his gun as I slowly reached for my wallet. (I had learned to reach for my wallet slowly after having a .9 millimeter pistol placed at my temple during a "routine traffic stop" at age sixteen). After a close examination of our pictures and our faces, the cards were returned. We were then offered, not an apology, but an explanation. It turns out that a Black male had committed an armed robbery in Cambridge earlier that afternoon, and, naturally, we are suspects...
Contractually quite flexible, Le Pli carries its own sort of caveat: it is only for those who are lithe of thigh and stout of wallet. The most expensive health club in Cambridge, it has both the most beautiful facilities and clientele...
Foreign policy is confusing in the post-cold war world, and with the dizzying variations on isolationism and interventionism available to politicians and commentators, it's hard to keep straight where they stand on important conflicts. Here is a convenient, only slightly larger than wallet-size guide...
...incredibly alert manager called "the police" who caught the thief outside Yenching Restaurant and gave me back my wallet. I realized half-way through the arrest that "the police" were not Cambridge Police, as I had expected for a theft in the Square, but the familiar HUD officers. The police response was quick, efficient, and courteous to both me and the thief--in short, everything I had always expected, and experienced, from...
...example, a Japanese exchange student killed in California was left dead with his wallet and belongings, yet the police still insisted it was an attempted robbery rather than a hate crime, said Helen Zia, former executive editor of Ms. magazine and currently director of an Asian women's shelter...