Harvard just created a new position called Executive Vice President. The paragraph in the Crimson that caught my eye was: "The move to the educational sector will come with a steep drop in pay for Forst, who earned nearly $50 million in the fiscal year ending in 2007, according to Forbes. Harvard vice presidents generally earn under $500,000 ( Read more... )

car drives into bicycle race in Mexico:

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2003:

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thank you for planting us - we're happy to give you so much joy every day:

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Princeton U. Press Recalls Typo-Filled Book and Says It Will Reprint"Princeton University Press has recalled all copies of one of its spring titles after discovering more than 90 spelling and grammar errors in the 245-page work. The book, Cop in the Hood: My Year Policing Baltimore’s Eastern District, by Peter Moskos, was published on Thursday in ( Read more... )

someone's got some really bad karma building up:

Framingham (AP/WBZ Newsroom) -- It may have been meant as a prank, but a Framingham police officer says plastic zip ties strung together across a busy street was a "murder waiting to happen ( Read more... )

"An 87-year-old man reported to police that he was robbed around 8 p.m. on Wallingford Road, Allston, on April 9. According to the victim, three males knocked him to the ground, went through his pockets, and stole his cane because he had nothing else of value with him."

this was the view from my cube Friday afternoon.


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From the annual report of President Eliot to the Board of Overseers of Harvard University ( Read more... )

Either mbta.com is retarded or I am. Why doesn't the the trip planner advise you to take the silver line when going from harvard to the airport? Even if I try to use the trip planner to go from SOUTH STATION to the AIRPORT, it tells me to walk to Chinatown, take the red to the blue, and then take the shuttle.