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...incredibly alert manager called "the police" who caught the thief outside Yenching Restaurant and gave me back my wallet. I realized half-way through the arrest that "the police" were not Cambridge Police, as I had expected for a theft in the Square, but the familiar HUD officers. The police response was quick, efficient, and courteous to both me and the thief--in short, everything I had always expected, and experienced, from...
...Saturday. "Ninotchka" at 3:05 and 7:25 p.m. and "Camille" at 1, 5:15 and 9:30 p.m. on Sunday. Oct. 10. "Breathless" at 4:05 and 8 p.m. and "The Finger Man" at 2, 5:50 and 9:45 p.m. on Monday, Oct. 11. "Once a Thief" at 4 and 8 p.m. and "Heroes Shed No Tears" at 6:05 and 10 p.m. on Tuesday, Oct. 12. "High School Confidential!" and "Reefer Madness" at 6:15 and 9:30 p.m. on Wednesday...
...return to our country of origin began on a somber note. Barely five hours after we landed in our hometown of Durban, a dinner at a relative's house was interrupted by a phone call. We were told that a woman in the neighborhood had been murdered. A thief had apparently broken into a home a few blocks away, unexpectedly ran into one of the owners of the house, and strangled her. He committed his crime quickly, cleanly. It might have taken place in any of the nearby houses, including the one where I had stayed...
...nightly news regularly contains reports of the random killing that occurs in the townships. Images of men corralled in burning tires or beaten to death with grotesquely barbed polearms plaster our television screens with fair frequency. But the killing that took place so close to me was different. The thief did not strangle the woman because of politics or clan rivalry, which lead to so much of the violence in the country. His only motivation was greed. He was a burglar who saw an opportunity in a society whose standards of law and order continue steadily to deteriorate...
Police Nab Bug Thief...