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When they first entered the Yard, Khazei and Brown did not yet know they would go into the public sector, but soon after they met, a freshman class welcome speech delivered by then-University President Derek C. Bok inspired the friends to explore the world outside of the Ivory Tower. Both men took Bok’s advice to heart and found internships on Capitol Hill at different points in their Harvard careers. There, they became acutely aware of the need for public service...
...book store just across from Harvard Yard sells intellectual books that could be assigned for courses but are not textbooks as well as a variety of other books and merchandise. The store still sells used books from the basement...
...current location, just across from Harvard Yard, the store sells academic-minded books and other merchandise...
...Most middle-class and wealthy Londoners were blissfully ignorant of conditions in Whitechapel until the autumn of 1888, when Scotland Yard realized that a serial killer was loose in the area, and Fleet Street helped create the legend - and even the name - of the knife-wielding "Ripper." Until the brutal slayings ended some two and a half years later, sensationalistic coverage of the Ripper was relentless, his exploits recounted by reporters and artists in a manner that exposed the squalor of Whitechapel to a fascinated audience - and shaped London's perception of the East End. Playwright George Bernard Shaw once...
...those pre-forensic science days, the police could do little more than flood Whitechapel with bobbies, take witness statements and gather evidence for the coroner. Scotland Yard successfully tested a pair of bloodhounds, but never used them in the investigation. But police did make use of photography for the first time. Grisly photos of a mutilated Mary Ann Kelly were probably the first crime-scene photos ever taken...