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021908-mikes-pastries.jpg--Hendry Street isn't the only place suffering from the home-foreclosure crisis. In fact, so many areas are suffering that real estate agents are taking possible buyers on bus tours of other people's property. As if someone losing a home doesn't have enough misery, now they have to have complete strangers tramping about on the front yard. [Boston Globe]

--A group of mayors, including Mayor Menino, are banding together with labor union reps in support of Deval Patrick's proposed casino licenses. [Boston Globe]

--Someone broke into the Web site of Harvard's Graduate School of Arts and Sciences, downloaded secure information, and then uploaded that information to Pirate Bay. The hacker claims he or she did it to expose weaknesses in the system. [Harvard Crimson]

--In good Harvard news, the law school scored a glamorous new hire--Cass Sunstein. [Boston Globe]

--Joseph Nee, the former Marshfield High student who was on trial for plotting a Columbine-style assault on the school, was sentenced to two and a half years. [WCVB]

--A wrap-up of the Amateur Erotic Film Competition at the Coolidge Corner Theater. [Daily Free Press]

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"As if someone losing a home doesn't have enough misery, now they have to have complete strangers tramping about on the front yard." If you already knew all the possible buyers, you wouldn't need a real estate broker, would you?

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