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...largest animal market in southern China. While many of the market's sellers appeared to be idling away their time one recent day, playing mahjong or smoking, their mobiles rang regularly as restaurants or familiar customers placed orders. "Now deals are usually carried out at dawn or dusk to avoid government inspectors," says Lao Xu, who sells hunting tridents and fermenting jars at the market. "If you want any wild animal, from Brazil turtles to pangolin, I can arrange for it to be delivered to your designated restaurant within several hours...
University administrators had previously hoped to avoid making Allston a major part of their current campaign, which entered a “quiet phase” at the start of 2004. The campaign’s public launch was already pushed back in the wake of faculty uproar over University President Lawrence H. Summers...
...City originally planned to allow the arrangement to expire Sept. 15, but the University negotiated an extension to avoid having trucks on Cowperthwaite during move-in, said Thomas J. Lucey, Harvard’s director of community relations for Cambridge...
...March, a Cambridge District Court judge rejected a plea agreement between Vaghar and the D.A. that would have allowed Vaghar to avoid jail time, saying the deal was too lenient and instead recommending a sentence with a minimum of 60 days of jail time...
...History 10a, still taken at Harvard by a few hundred students each year, is a remnant of the post-World War II liberal arts curriculum. It survived the Core Curriculum innovations of the 1970s and now cowers in a corner of the course catalogue, hoping to avoid the axe of the current curricular review...