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...Despite the depressing nature of his subject, Moskos manages to draw a colorful portrait of Baltimore, even adding dashes of dark humor that endow the desperate inner city with humanity. On a disturbance call, Moskos must ascertain whether the relationship of a man and a woman is sexual and therefore legally “domestic,” a task requiring sensitivity to Baltimore slang...
...Grosz was named Radcliffe’s dean of science. Colleagues said she has since been instrumental in luring leading scientists away from their labs to Radcliffe. Recent science fellows include renowned physicist Lisa Randall and Maria Zuber, the first woman to lead a science department at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology...
...clearing 1.79 meters on her first attempt in the high jump, junior Becky Christensen became just the third woman in Harvard history to claim a Penn Relays medal and headlined a triumphant weekend for the Crimson track and field team, split between the three-day relays in Philadelphia and the Wildcat Invitational III hosted...
...shaped like a peasant's conical hat. A hundred years ago, the island was the quarantine station for Chinese immigrants, some detained so long they wrote poems about loneliness. No one lives on the island anymore. At night, it is a purple shadow. Sometimes I think about the young woman whose father built her this house a hundred years ago. She must have seen lanterns blaze on the island at night...
Other municipalities have called special prosecutors in police shooting cases. For instance, in a January incident in Lima, Ohio, in which a 26-year-old woman was shot and killed and her 14-month-old son was wounded in a SWAT raid, a special prosecutor was appointed by state Attorney General Marc Dann. In Crawford, Neb., a special prosecutor was also appointed by a district judge to investigate the October police shooting of a 16-year-old boy in an abandoned bar. Both cases are pending...