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...Advocates of British penal reform say that as Asbos are granted in a civil court, in which the burden of proof is lower, police often secure senseless orders. In a much-cited example, a depressed woman who tried to drown herself in the River Avon was given an Asbo in 2005 forbidding her from jumping into rivers. Others question the efficacy of the some 4000 Asbos granted each year; a 2006 poll by MTV Europe found that a third of young people see Asbos as a badge of honor...
...Chen has ventured across the Charles River to work at Republican presidential hopeful Mitt Romney’s campaign headquarters, where he serves as domestic policy director...
...same time that Harvard is making plans to expand across the river, Boston College (BC) is preparing to expand across the street. BC will invest $700 million over the next 10 years in the construction of a new complex of buildings across Commonwealth Avenue from its main campus, the college announced Wednesday. As in Harvard’s Allston development plans, BC is putting interdisciplinary science at the center of its expansion. BC’s new Brighton campus will feature an integrated science complex designed to facilitate research spanning multiple fields, as well as facilities for the fine arts...
Though the election just ended, Sundquist will have an opportunity to make good on a campaign promise tomorrow morning, when he will take to the snow-sprinkled banks of the Charles River to join the members of the Alaska Klub for an 8 a.m. plunge...
...called the “Experiment”—an early 1970s exercise in co-educational housing that involved the exchange of female students from Harvard’s faraway Radcliffe Quadrangle dormitories with residents from the traditionally all-male houses between the Charles River and the Yard. It was a temporary arrangement—a trial—and, like most experiments, it was supposed to come...