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I'm still not sure what to think of the encounter. When I think of the much worse incident in which two Harvard students were ordered off a shuttle bus and searched by Cambridge police last March, I wonder if I'm just being paranoid.
We weren't harassed. The police officer who questioned us was rather friendly, telling us immediately why we had been stopped. The mood of our encounter would not have been altered much if he had asked us if the Sox should trade Boggs.
Championship games are usually followed by scenes of celebration and dejection. Members of the winning team pile on each other. Members of the losing team crumple into balls of misery or lay on the turf like they have just had a close encounter with a Mack truck.
9:16 p.m.--An urgent all-points bulletin is broadcast over the police radio frequency. Two men in Brookline, one wielding a meat cleaver, have robbed a man and fled on bicycles. The pair then stashed the bikes in a black sports car and drove away. Harvard police hear the...
Shevardnadze's charm will be tested this week in his first lengthy encounter with Baker. Not that the Foreign Minister will leave everything to the vagaries of personal chemistry. There will be more late nights, with briefing papers to be finished and reviewed for the Baker visit and China summit...