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...Overheard at Dunkin' Donuts There is an old saying among cops. "Good informant, good case; bad informant, bad case; no informant, no case," as Ronald Brooks, president of the National Narcotic Officers' Associations' Coalition, testified before the House Judiciary Committee in July. Informants are an excellent tool when they are meticulously supervised...
...technical services division. The groups said Harvard discriminated against Toomey, a 20-year library veteran who they said has a medical disability. Toomey was arrested on May 10 and charged with disorderly conduct and making terrorist threats after other commuters at the Alewife T Station allegedly overheard him say he had a bomb in his backpack. The criminal case has not yet been decided. Shortly after the arrest, Harvard administrators put Toomey on leave and requested that other library employees report any concerns they had about his behavior, according to union representatives. The university fired Toomey, who was still...
...playoff run.Never in my lifetime has a Celtics ticket given rise to such a response. The Big Ticket appears to have delivered on the promise of his nickname —marquee games against Miami, San Antonio and Chicago sold out before we ever reached the counter.I overheard another fan begging the teller for “whatever you’ve got left.”And this year, for the first time in a long while, the teller didn’t have much. —Staff writer Aidan E. Tait can be reached at atait@fas.harvard.edu...
...Savenor’s Market. Julia Child used to frequent this famed foodie haunt, a carnivore’s fantasyland that stocks every cut of meat imaginable and provides its products to local restaurants like Upstairs on the Square and Radius. Perusing the butcher’s section, I overheard a market employee apologetically tell one dejected customer that Savenor’s was out of ostrich fillets. Shame. Wild boar meat suddenly caught my eye. I momentarily had fantasies of preparing a hearty boar ragu with pappardelle noodles, but the slow simmering necessary wouldn’t be feasible...
...organize Autism Family Night in restaurants. Alex, 16, has an 8-year-old autistic brother. "We were at some little restaurant," she recalls, "when my brother started completely freaking out, pulling his hair, trying to bang his head on the table, pulling my dad's hair, biting...I overheard this man behind us say, 'Why can't they be better parents...