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Scott Brown is in Massachusetts thanks to the baffling five-week Congressional recess and his visiting cities and towns, ostensibly to meet with actual taxpayers and voters. He's also getting boatloads of media exposure. Brown is the coverboy for Nantucket Magazine this month. The Track says Brown is a regular on the island these days as he plots his campaign to keep his Senate seat. more ›

  • The City of Boston is seeing some success with a program to prevent college students from dropping out. [Boston Globe]
  • If campus police don't ask permission to search your BC dorm, then they can't legally find your drug stash. [WBUR]
  • Before the Harvard-Yale game, a Crimson comedy team joked about the Yalie who was murdered last year. [New Haven Register]
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  • A car full of BC students (including members of the hockey team) ran into a Green Line train, and the driver wasn't drunk. [Boston Herald]
  • About a dozen students needed alcohol-related medical attention at UMass Amherst's "Blackout Weekend" dance. [The Republican]
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  • Mayor Menino wants to "take more risks" in the next four years. [Boston Globe]
  • Flaherty and Yoon are keeping their options open. [Boston Globe]
  • Town of Amherst votes to accept two Guantanamo Bay prisoners as residents -- if they're released. [Christian Science Monitor]
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    • Amherst's Town Meeting will consider allowing Guantanamo detainees to relocate there after they are released. [Boston Herald]
    • One hundred employees at the state's Department of Conservation and Recreation were let go today. [Boston Herald]

    -- Somerville cops bagged an alleged car burglar Monday only to discover that he was armed with a sword, according to reports. No word on whether he was being pursued by an oversized Russian. [Somerville Journal] more ›

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