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...Somebody had to get a little lucky with him.' RALPH AMENDOLARO, a Queens, N.Y., construction worker, explaining his rationale for playing Bernard Madoff's prison number in the New York Lottery...
Union representatives and members of the Harvard community petitioned the City Council yesterday in response to the University’s low-wage worker cuts. The resolution that came before the Council proposed an economic stimulus package in which the City of Cambridge would exempt Harvard from its payment in lieu of taxes (PILOT). The resolution’s sponsor, Counsellor Marjorie C. Decker, said that the resolution is a symbolic method to highlight the absurdity of the layoffs. At the last Council meeting, Decker said she thought this type of gesture would shame Harvard into halting layoffs...
...were all closed from approximately 9 a.m. to 11 a.m., according to Reda Bichri, an employee of The Body Shop. The Harvard Coop and Crimson Corner News Stand also closed for this timeframe, Nicholas said. Red line trains bypassed the Harvard Square station for those two hours, a transit worker said, and all Harvard Yard gates along Mass. Ave from Johnston Gate to the Widener gate were also closed, according to Harvard security personnel. The last bomb scare to threaten University property occurred in February 2000, when a phoned-in bomb threat and reports of a suspicious smell caused...
...construction worker was an employee of Skanska, a Swedish construction company whose U.S. operations are based in Parsippany, N.J., according to Andrew B. McCabe. McCabe is the president of Joseph P. McCabe Inc., the construction company working on the exterior renovation of the Fogg Museum. [SEE CORRECTION BELOW...
...April 3 news article "Worker Injured in Fogg Construction" incorrectly stated that the worker injured was with the Swedish construction firm Skanska, based on information from Andrew B. McCabe, the president of Joseph P. McCabe Inc., another construction firm working with Harvard. In fact, the worker injured was working for Preservation Timber Framing, Inc., according to University spokeswoman Lauren Marshall...