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The Harvard Crimson reports that it ran a full-page ad from a Holocaust denier group in today's paper. The ad has been pulled, according to the article, and will not run again this week. The ad was placed by Bradley Smith, the creepazoid who runs the "Committee for Open Debate on the Holocaust," the foremost Holocaust denial group in the United States. There is no controversy, among people who aren't Nazis, about whether or not the Holocaust took place. Hate groups like Smith's have been placing ads in college papers for over a decade, in the attempt to lend credence to their pretend scholarship.

Ashley Judd will probably never forgive us for saying she is currently enrolled at Harvard University's Kennedy School of Government in the Mid-Career Master in Public Administration program. Bostonist knows she's there because the Harvard Crimson and the Boston Herald told us so weeks ago.

You don't need a Harvard degree to marvel at lassitude. Mollycoddle students living in Harvard's Quad issued a plaintive wail when they learned that late night shuttle bus service from their remote redoubt to Harvard Yard would become a casualty of Harvard's endowment collapse. Without the shuttle buses, the so-called "quadlings" will have to walk a staggering distance of less than a mile to get to the university's main campus.

The Harvard Crimson reports that the Harvard College Library plans to sacrifice its staff to the Great God Endowment Collapse. After discovering that it will have to slash $12 million from its budget, the HCL has decided that layoffs are unavoidable and that surviving staff will be moved around the library like the skeleton crew of a damaged Battlestar. We can only hope that the line item for Harvard Film Archive director Haden Guest's coiffure remains undisturbed, lest Cambridge lose the secret source of its great power. [Harvard Crimson]

--A judge set the bail for Damion Jamaal-Anthony Haley, the man who allegedly fired a gun into a crowd of brawling partygoers at Aria over the weekend, at $1 million. [WBZ]

--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]

--The Patrick administration is working on stopping the Mashpee Wampanoag Tribe's attempt to get approval for a casino through the federal government. The administration would prefer that the tribe bid for one of the three casino licenses Patrick hopes to auction off. [Boston Herald]

--If we can't make an event out of a Super Bowl victory, then we'll make one out of Super Tuesday. Get answers to your burning questions, watch McLovin learn to vote, experience the rock-star presence of Barack Obama, and find out where to party. [All links Bostonist]

--18-year-old Darrion Carrington was shot and killed late last night in the front lobby of the Canton House in Dorchester. Police don't think it was random. However, it is scary that the assailant just walked into the restaurant and started firing. [BPD News, Boston Herald]

--Do you drink Whittier, Schultz, Balance Rock, Spring Brook, and/or Maple milk? Do you live in Worcester County and like milk? Throw out what you have in the fridge. After two people died from listeriosis, that illness was traced to Whittier Farms. [Boston Globe]

--Maybe Fung Wah isn't so bad after all. The local press picked up on a b0st0n LiveJournal story that a Peter Pan bus driver felt that his passengers on a trip to Boston should be punished and forced to stay on the bus in Framingham because one of them called the company about his poor driving. The driver's sorry ass is about to get fired. [WBZ, b0st0n Live Journal]

--Fires ran rampant yesterday. A mother and her son were injured last night in a fire in Somerville. One firefighter was treated and released at the hospital. [Boston Globe] --Another fire broke out in Haverhill last night, and people were injured jumping out of the windows. No one died in the blaze, but 24 people have lost their homes. [Boston Globe, Boston Herald] --The state Supreme Judicial Court is letting Heidi Erickson, who kept...

--Deval Patrick boosted the payroll for his own staff by $1.1 million. The Herald is not amused. [Boston Herald] --Speaking of not being amused, Outraged Liberal is appropriately outraged at the Herald for some fuzzy math regarding the news bit mentioned above. [Massachusetts Liberal] --King Downing, an official with the ACLU who specializes in fighting racial profiling, suing the Massachusetts Port Authority and the Massachusetts State Police. He was hassled while leaving the airport, and...

--Screenwriters, get your pens. A boy finagled his way into becoming an exchange student at the all-female Wellesley College. Ready … set … go! [Boston Globe] --Barack Obama and his supporters didn't let the weather stop their gathering at the Park Plaza Castle. He joked that "the name of my cousin, Dick Cheney, will not be on the ballot.” Now when's Oprah coming? [WCVB, Harvard Crimson] --Dr. Ruth was in town. Laurel Sweet describes her...

--Auto insurers will start competing for your business. [WBZ] --If you're looking for safe, Newton is the place to be. If you're looking for action, that might be another story entirely. [WBZ] --No one's using the U-Turn ramp on the Pike. Wait, there's a U-Turn ramp on the Pike? [Boston Globe] --The governor is renewing the Interagency Council on Homelessness and Housing. [Boston Herald] --Joan Kennedy, off the wagon? [Boston Herald] --Alec Baldwin to...

--A second MBTA-related noose incident: A black conductor found a noose on the floor of a Red Line cab before Halloween. [Boston Herald] --Roberto Pulido, crooked cop extraordinaire who inspired one of the Herald's most salacious covers, is now blaming steroids for his behavior. [Boston Globe] --A bus driver from Martha's Vineyard won $10 million smackers in the Massachusetts State Lottery. [Boston Herald] --Some UMass-Amherst students are attempting a boycott. [Boston Herald] --Elsewhere in...

--Deval Patrick has signed a bill that expands buffer zones around abortion clinics. Anyone who protests must stand at least 35 feet away from entrances and driveways to the clinic. [WBZ] --Three men are being tried for funneling profits from charity to promoting jihad. [Boston Globe] --The injury toll for yesterday's fire in Mattapan has risen to 16, and the 2-year-old baby rescued in the fire is in critical condition in the hospital. [Boston Globe]...

Here's a wrap-up from the local papers about the strangest and funniest episodes of the night: Boston Herald: "A Teletubby dressed in Red Sox gear and a man naked but for a giant red, plastic beer cup costume were part of a procession that included a large number of kids in BU and Northeastern gear." Harvard Crimson: Streakers galore on DeWolfe Street. Universal Hub Commenter Molly Clare: Speaking of Harvard, "'OH. MY. GAWD. The Red...

The Harvard Crimson ran a short story in Friday's edition of the paper on the Harvard Radcliffe Science Fiction Association's (HRSFA) performance of an abridged "Julius Cesar." The students performed on the steps of Memorial Hall and employed bed sheet togas and umbrellas as costumes. The Crimson reports that turnout was low, but the student group considered it a success. "Rachel S. Storch ’10, who played Cassius and Plebian Number One, said that the event was intended partly as an opportunity for club members to release aggression, but mostly to just 'confuse the tourists.' " Nerdy flash mob? Could be. But as the warning of the Ides of March were being played out by the HRSFA players just across Harvard Yard (in what looks like Lamont Library) a rogue group of players were invading a reading room and giving the sixty-second version of Cesar's assassination. And, for the gorilla warning of the Ides of March we've got video.

Legendary Harvard Square joint Bartley's Burger Cottage, which christens it's juicy burgers after famous figures, has decided that the burger named after former president Larry Summers is passé. Maybe diners avoided the burger out of protest for Summers' foot-in-mouth comments about the abilities of female academics. Or maybe they steered clear of the burger because its toppings of swiss cheese and honey mustard sounds like a downright nasty combination. But it might be Bartley's...

Apparently in Cambridge it's just too hard to pop the collar on a corset. Yesterday the Harvard Crimson published an arts editorial "Preppy-Goth Is Doomed Fashion." The skull fashion is on the rise at Harvard. Hipsters and Preps alike are taking on the emblems normally associated with a gothic look. We know all about the Wal-Mart Nazi t-shirts that have been pulled from all many stores. But that was a simple case of plagiarism. They...

Sorry, Kathleen Breeden, you're no Kaavya Viswanathan. The Harvard Crimson broke the story last spring that then Harvard College sophomore, now junior, Viswanathan had included some suspiciously similar passages in her book How Opal Mehta Got Kissed, Got Wild and Got a Life. This week they turned on one of their own and revoked two political cartoons drawn by Kathleen E. Breeden citing apparent plagiarism. The student-run paper cites two instances, including the October...

The Harvard Crimson reports that there's been a bit of a scuffle over the tour between the guides and the University administration. Student businesses must pass muster with an established bureaucracy before they're sanctioned by the University, otherwise they're not allowed to be in business. Looking to maintain the non-profit status of the institution concerns were expressed with the "appearance" of the tours presence. Specific mention was made of their website HarvardTour.com – the phrases Harvard and dot com together, when not in relation to the independent Harvard Bookstore, are troubling to the University. Jones and Schofield-Bodt didn't think they'd violated any policy. In fact they'd found a little loophole in the policy which allowed them to operate. They've come to an agreement with the administration that allows them to operate their thrice-daily tours of campus, they'll just make sure to always refer to it as the "Unofficial Hahvahd Tour" from now on. Come fall when classes resume they may be forced to go through the approval process if they are to continue running the tour.

While Bostonist constantly struggles to get you the latest news here in the city, we like to think that we’ve got our act together (somewhat)…that is until we read about someone much younger who has accomplished something that we some day hope to. Last week, we read an article from the A.P. Wire about a Harvard student, Kaavya Viswanathan, who at age 17, signed a two-book deal with publishing house Little, Brown for a reported...

The first blogger was admitted into the White House's briefing room with an official press pass today; Garrett Graff, a 23 year-old blogger on mediabistro.com's new blog, Fishbowl D.C., had attempted for the past week to grab a daily press pass of his own and finally his pleading paid off. Graff was not truly impressed with the environment of the room, describing it as "dilapitated" and "cramped," adding insult to injury by calling the whole...