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...Immediately after the incident the workmen complained to the police only that I had "violated his personal space." Assault and battery was invented later in the day, presumably after he had consulted with his superiors at HRE. (I called police after the workman, wielding a 2-by-4, threatened to hit me. It was the impression of witnesses that the workman made the comment about his "space" to try to explain his threat...
...page letter from HRE's attorney, Mr. Daniel Polvere, writing, he said, for "Harvard Real Estate, Inc., managing agent for President [sic] and Fellows of Harvard College, your landlord." Mr. Polvere threatened to evict me and my family from our apartment, accused me of assaulting and battering" the workman, and accused me of placing debris on my stairway (and presumably on my head, where some debris happened to fall as I was leaving my building) "to fabricate the appearance that debris was falling on the steps or was being left there." (He forgot, for some reason, to mention the latter...
Following an argument yesterday between a tenant and a workman, Cambridge's building commissioner ordered workmen from Harvard Real Estate (HRE) to stop working over stairs in the Harvard-owned Ware St. apartments without adequate safety precautions...
Giatrelis acknowledged the the threat but claimed that Epstein was the aggressor, Epstein added, saying he filed a complaint against the workman yesterday...
Like Children's Author Beatrix Potter, Artist and Illustrator Sara Midda celebrates the English garden in delicate watercolors. In and Out of the Garden (Workman; 128 pages; $14.95) will give snowbound nature lovers and backyard farmers cause to revel in vividly rendered pears, potatoes and peas. Tendrils of painstakingly crafted calligraphy-herbal aphorisms from Solomon to Poet John Clare-curl through tiny landscapes. There are also illustrated guides to flowers, fragrances and remedies offered by the bewhiskered farmers and thick-waisted matrons who tend these jewel-like plots. As for the predatory animals, like a good gardener, Midda...