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James Arthur Hogue, a Harvard Extension School student and a convicted felon, was arrested Monday by Harvard police for allegedly stealing an estimated $100,000 in precious gems, minerals and other property from the Harvard University Mineralogical Museum, police said yesterday...
Hogue, who has compiled a long arrest record and several aliases, had stockpiled a cache of gold, silver, rubies, opals and more than 100 other precious and non-precious gems and minerals stolen over the last nine months from the museum, police said...
...very stylish indeed, though the thought wafts through a doubter's mind that he has not yet written anything quite as splendid as his own name, which like his paragraphs he parts nattily on the left. Boyle's flaw in his past work has been to seem a bit precious and self-pleased. His new novel is one of his better efforts, though effort is the key word here, and the result is, at best, a story that is amusing and interestingly odd but baffling in its intent...
...appalled that inevitably, part of my tuition money would end up in this funding and it would be hard to imagine that there aren't benefactors of this institution out there who would not be equally outraged at this proposed use of precious funds...
...fence, we stand a chance that there will be some kind of violent response. So we thought long and hard. But we removed it, and there was no action." The only rise the FBI managed to get out of Koresh was last Sunday, when an armored vehicle towed his precious black Camaro to make room for the next day's attack...