Word: centralization
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Dates: during 2000-2000
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...many an odd job in his time--foot messenger, fruit stand salesperson, film production assistant and sporadic stints as a writer. Claiming to have designed a rack of satirical t-shirts (including those "Hahvahd" spoofs) Swetland describes himself as "somewhat of an artiste" who writes in his Central Square apartment from time to time. Although his T performances pay for his rent and survival, this performer's motivation is much more heartfelt. "I like to think that up to 10,000 people around Boston who are stressed out from their work don't go home and scream at their wives...
...Herrell's until midnight, come in at 12 on a weekend night and maybe do a little work before she goes to bed. If it wasn't a Herrells' type thing, it would be taking a fun trip to Hubba Hubba--you know that leather store out in Central Square to see if she could find a new thing to incorporate into her wardrobe. She also seems like she attends a lot of performances, like she would go and see a lot of shows with the HRDC or the Loeb; definitely going to Cultural Rhythms or seeing an HRO concert...
...While this ostensibly makes the department's top brass look bad, the report may be Parks' best hope at avoiding an FBI-induced department overhaul. Throughout the report, the board paints Rampart CRASH - the unit being investigated - as a rogue outfit separate from the LAPD's central powers. Further, it repeatedly suggests that the best way to battle corruption is to consolidate power in Parks' office and increase the budget of Internal Affairs, the department's internal policing unit. But in the wake of protests following the acquittal of four New York City police officers in the Amadou Diallo case...
Also, Harvard Square is not alone: similar patterns hit Porter Square and Central Square occasionally, Pasquarello says...
...right to boil lobsters, by the way, since they have no brain cortex or its equivalent. Wise's argument seems to denigrate the divinity of mankind, and perhaps of all creation -- an unnecessary public relations error, I would argue, and perhaps a massive missing of the central point: a holiness and beauty in the world that makes stewardship the only civilized behavior. "But I am a lawyer," Wise tells me, "not a poet or theologian...