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...retired NYPD officer and crusader against urban violence, Davis appeared not to have had time to draw or fire his own licensed holstered handgun after Askew opened fire. Police say Askew fired 14 shots; two hit Davis in the torso. A plainclothes officer assigned to Speaker Gifford Miller's security detail returned fire from the chamber floor, and hit Askew six times in the chest and arm. Askew, who was planning to run against Davis in a primary election this fall, died of his injuries...
...Pebble” Gifford, vice president of the Harvard Square Defense Fund, estimates that 32 independent bookstores inhabited Harvard Square only “a couple years...
...there ever was a community where there is a demand for books it’s going to be this one,” Gifford says. “Graduates come back and all they want to do is browse in the bookstores—it’s a special attraction...
...Ghosts in the early 1990s while vacationing in Southeast Asia, where he met a slew of grizzled expatriates with shady pasts. Later, an International Herald Tribune story about felons hiding out in Cambodia due to its lack of extradition treaties further sparked his imagination. Working with writer Barry Gifford (Wild at Heart), he penned a noirish yarn about a Manhattan yuppie (played by Dillon) embroiled in a major insurance scam who travels to Phnom Penh and reunites with his mentor, portrayed by James Caan (The Godfather). The plot follows Dillon's character through sweat-soaked brothel scenes, all-night temple...
...Cambridge regulatory boards will likely find the design of the new building to be appropriate for the site; the biggest question at the moment is what will happen on the first floor. Local residents like G. Pebble Gifford, former president of the Harvard Square Defense Fund, would like to see retail space remain there. Harvard would like to use the entire first floor for its employees, since the building is not very large to begin with (four small stories above grade, one below). Harvard’s current plan to placate dissenters is a gallery (possibly containing rare books from...