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...most frightening situations that a parent can face is not knowing whether their child has a firearm in their own house. The Boston Police Department’s new Safe Homes Initiative is a way to help Boston area parents deal with just that dilemma. The program consists of a community advisory council that identifies households where juveniles are believed to be carrying firearms, followed by a search team comprised of police and community members who go and request to search the children’s rooms. Searches are completely voluntary, and if an illegally possessed gun is found...
...initiative under the Korea Institute at the Center for Government and International Studies—aims to promote and lead research of Korean history, over a period from the Paleolithic era to the 1000 AD., in the western world. “It’s an area that has very little exposure in western academia,” said Mark E. Byington, the founder and director of the group. “That’s the challenge and that’s what I find most fascinating.” The workshops will begin with presentations...
After a brief stint schmoozing in the roped-off VIP area, Hilton ascended the DJ booth to praise Boston’s partying abilities...
Susie An ’10 came to Harvard planning to concentrate in neurobiology, but after a semester of juggling classes and the “tedium” of lab work, she realized that her academic talents were better suited to another area: art history...
Meanwhile, drug trafficking and international ties have been expanded by other Italian crime syndicates, notably the 'Ndrangheta of Calabria and the Camorra in the Naples area. At the same time, however, the Cosa Nostra was assaulted again and again by major Italian police crackdowns in the 1990s. Police believe that Salvatore Lo Piccolo, Provenzano's successor as Boss of Bosses, was trying to revive the Sicilian mob's fortunes by linking back up with American mobsters through the old Inzerillo connection. Lo Piccolo's arrest in November is believed to have brought more of the "Old Bridge" operation to light...