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...around four or five blocks, up Pico, across Mariposa, down and back around. Then it leaves. The Playboys laugh at the departing cops. Two years ago, CRASH teams were all over them, jumping out of their patrol cars to search them for weapons and drugs, getting them to pull up their shirts to show their tattoos, pumping them for information about shootings. These days the cops barely engage. The night before, Rowdy had spray-painted a two-story design of PBS, the Playboys logo, on the front of a building on Pico. It took him nearly three hours--from...
...Though the school and the parents want their kids to be successful in America, the ambivalence of many Islamic parents sends mixed signals. The pull of their home country is a constant distraction from fitting into this one. "They are obsessed with foreign politics," says Steve Landek, who has been mayor of Bridgeview since 1999. "I come to talk to them about better sidewalks. They want to know how to run for Congress so they can change America's Israeli policy." Clearly respectful, however, of the economic and cultural contributions of Muslims to the community, he regrets to say 9/11...
Although the Crimson finished the season tied with Brown for last in the Ivy League, it coalesced late in the season. Sproul led an unanswered second-half offensive charge to pull the team within two against No. 17 Cornell, although the Crimson eventually lost 7-5. If the light of hope peeped through the clouds of a losing season then, it beamed in the team’s final game, a 13-9 victory over Brown in which the team’s rookies shone...
While Harvard—citing the “unusual combination of circumstances presented by this particular holding”—limited its April divestiture to PetroChina, Stanford announced that it would also pull out of three other stocks linked to the Sudanese regime, including Swiss-based engineering firm ABB Ltd., Russian state-run oil producer Tatneft, and Chinese oil company Sinopec...
...friends” script has a detailed listing of what Harvard IP addresses correspond to what buildings, allowing users to pull up with a few keystrokes where any user they have listed is logged into telnet on campus. Coordinator of Residential Computing Kevin S. Davis ’98 says that HASCS would not comment on the subject...