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Around 3 p.m. I was standing in front of the Coop with a friend when a boy reached into my pocketbook (an open canvas bag) and took my wallet. I saw him putting it into his coat and grabbed his arm telling him that I had no money or credit cards and would he please return the wallet. He replied "I don't have your mother-fucking wallet, lady." I told him I had seen him take it, whereupon he handed me a piece of paper which had been inside my wallet and said "Is this what you want, lady...
...much at this time because the boys (about 16 years old) were headed for the Yard and I was certain that people there would help me. I chased them across the Yard, in tears of frustration by this time, calling for help. I was shouting. "That guy took my wallet. Will someone please help me?" It seems to me that a girl visibly crying in the Yard and calling for assistance should evoke some response. Not one person of the many who were walking through the Yard helped me, though it was fairly obvious that I was distressed and needed...
...most upsetting factor about the episode was not that my wallet was stolen and not retrieved, but that not one person in Harvard Yard (and there were dozens, not just one or two) helped me. After I lost the boys and was returning to the Coop a guy stopped me in the Yard and said, "Hey, I saw you chasing these boys through the Yard and yelling. Did you ever get your wallet back?" I was appalled...
...resistance to the draft-ended, an anarchist grabbed a microphone in the center of the hall. He asserted that it was the right of any person to defend himself or herself from violence, including the violence of the state, and took what was apparently a draft card from his wallet. Then, standing high on a chair, he brought a cigarette lighter to the card...
...with the quality of the music they play, or how they play it. A lot of people don't like the BSO because its ticket prices are high, its concerts are sold out, and it doesn't seem very sympathetic to the music lover without much money in his wallet...