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...Pocket Test The Challenge: Perhaps the greatest advantage of these new Smartcards will be watching your fellow Housemates hump the new card readers furiously to open doors without taking their cards out of their pockets. But will their humping be in vain? The Result: Hump away! The Through-the Wallet Test The Challenge: In a similar vein to the previous challenge, will backing your derrière into the card reader only result in failed entry? The Result: Back that thang...
...Harvard University Police Department yesterday. The victim was traveling from the Radcliffe Quadrangle to Harvard Square when she was struck from behind by an assailant. The victim fell to the ground while the suspect fled the area after taking the woman’s iPod, digital camera, and wallet. The victim, who was not seriously injured, could not provide HUPD with a description of the suspect. Since the incident occurred off of Harvard property, the Cambridge Police Department is investigating. — THE CRIMSON STAFF
When the Russian-born sumo wrestler Wakanoho Toshinori (real name Soslan Aleksandrovich Gagloev) dropped his wallet on a street in Tokyo's Sumida Ward on June 24, he might have seemed to be in luck: The wallet was found by an honest woman, who delivered it, with its contents intact, to a police station. Unfortunately for the young rikishi, as sumo wrestlers are known, the contents of his wallet included not only money and his alien registration card, but also a joint containing 0.368 grams of marijuana. On August 18, Wakanoho was arrested, and a search of his residence turned...
...Even though he was released without charge, the Wakanoho's arrest shook the sport to its core. The rikishi escaped charges only because the amount of marijuana in his wallet was smaller than the threshold for legal punishment in Japan. At a news conference, Wakanoho cried, repeatedly apologized and asked for a reinstatement. But a sport whose rituals and conventions are so intimately tied with a traditional sense of Japanese identity is not so easily able to forgive the Russian's transgressions. He was told by the Japan Sumo Association (JSA) that reinstating him was impossible. On September 11, Wakanoho...
Ultimately, says Case, "if you don't understand where a green claim comes from, check it out. There are a lot of companies trying to relieve people of the green in their wallet...