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Police asked the Stompers, a local band performing at the party, to turn down the volume after receiving numerous complaints from neighbors. Boston Police spokesman Robert O'Toole said Sunday. When sound manager Kevin M. Marshall refused the request, police unplugged the sound equipment and arrested both Marshall and drummer Mark Cuccinello, O'Toole added...
...significance of the pro-British tilt. As close NATO allies, one U.S. analyst pointed out, the two countries' intelligence services are "interlocking at almost every level." Moreover, the facilities at Ascension Island are leased from Britain under terms that require the U.S. to make them available on request...
...fleet heading toward the Falkland Islands is not the only weapon that the British can use against the Argentines. London has already launched an economic attack on its opponent. At Britain's request, the ten nations of the European Community last week took one of the most dramatic steps in the organization's 25-year history and agreed to close their ports to Argentine goods until May 17. Said one surprised E.G. official: "We have done in a day what it usually takes a year...
Occasionally when time and a suitable request coincide, she reverts to the days when she pursued a semi-serious degree as an academic at Radcliffe (studying under Perry Miller and completing all the Ph.D. Requirements but a thesis), and writes a piece of critical analysis. Though Survival, a collection of critical essays, met a good reception, she says she never felt any particular fondness for the form and, even at Radcliffe, felt equally smug, and guilty for listening to junior faculty's political woes "and secretly knowing I would never have to cope with...
...those silent whizzes, pocket calculators, posed the question of whether mathematics students should be permitted to bring them to exams. Again, technology won. But last week at Harvard Law School, the technological line was finally drawn-at least for the moment. No, said the powers that be, to a request that students be allowed to use word processors and computers for taking exams...