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...acknowledged that he had heard “that she would lose her temper,” but he added that Kagan led the school with a “firm hand” like a good manager. Kagan was “willing to fire people that needed to be fired,” Tushnet said...

Author: By Zoe A.Y. Weinberg, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Elena Kagan’s Management Style Amped Up Pressure at Harvard Law School | 5/14/2010 | See Source »

Although the body was recovered by  the Boston Fire Department responding to a call from a passerby, the State Police detective unit from the Suffolk County District Attorney’s office is handling the investigation. Under Mass. law, State Police under the state’s various District Attorney’s Offices are responsible for death investigations occurring in the state waterways within their jurisdictions...

Author: By Michelle B. Timmerman, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Dead Body Found in Charles River | 5/12/2010 | See Source »

...check the operation of a vague generality under fire, take the typical example, “Hume brought empiricism to its logical extreme.” The question is asked, “Did the philosophical beliefs of Hume represent the spirit of the age in which he lived?” Our hero replies by opening his essay with, “David Hume, the great Scottish philosopher, brought empiricism to its logical extreme. If these be the spirit of the age in which he lived, then he was representative of it.” This generality expert...

Author: By Donald Carswell | Title: Beating the System | 5/7/2010 | See Source »

...deputy mayor, Goldsmith will be in charge of about a dozen different departments—including the Fire and Police Departments and the Office of Management and Budget...

Author: By Stephanie B. Garlock, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Harvard Kennedy School Professor Tapped for NYC Post | 5/5/2010 | See Source »

MWRA is currently delivering water from the emergency back-up reservoir system to the affected households. That water has not been treated for drinking and is thus unsafe for human consumption, although it is suitable for bathing, flushing, and fire prevention...

Author: By JOANNE S. WONG, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Boil Order Excludes Cambridge | 5/3/2010 | See Source »

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