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...Yale game with a nasty hangover at 6 p.m. My brother and I have spent an hour and a half in the cold trying to wheedle our way on to one of the rare UC buses. I’m grumpy, miserable and freezing, but I have a secret weapon for the bus ride: the first Harry Potter book tucked safely under my arm. Though I’ve read it before, the movie is coming out soon and I want to refresh my Potter savvy before I see it on the big screen. I spend the next few hours...
...Macau in ?The Untold Story,? might be seen as a figure of black comedy - a fiercer sibling of the woman in Roald Dahl?s 1953 story ?Lamb to the Slaughter.? In both tales the killer feeds the evidence to the police: in ?Lamb? the cops eat the the murder weapon; in ?Untold Story? they eat the corpse, which Wong has chopped into pieces and cooked into pork buns. Yet we know this is no comedy from the look on the actor?s face. It is a glower of implacable rage before Wong is captured, and of sub- or post-human...
...wasn’t until the Cambridge Police Department (CPD) arrested 24-year-old Jaoudat Abouazza on traffic violations and dangerous weapon charges near the Au Bon Pain in Holyoke Center that the University decided to install metal detectors at the entrance to the Yard on Commencement Day and bring in extra assistance from other state and federal agencies...
Abouazza was arrested on seven counts—operating a motor vehicle on a suspended license, driving an unregistered motor vehicle, operating a motor vehicle without insurance, attaching plates, possessing stolen property under $250 and two counts of possession of a dangerous weapon...
...biggest test of might between the two sides of the gun debate will come in 2004, when the Clinton-era assault-weapons ban comes up for renewal. Gun-control advocates note that the weapon used in the sniper attacks was manufactured after the ban and say it shows that the law should be tightened. But the N.R.A. already has a comeback: Over our cold, dead bodies...