The intended hunger strike was announced at the end of the year last year, and executed in the early days of this month. It's over now. On February 16, 2007, professor James Sherley ended his hunger strike and protest outside of the offices of the MIT president and provost. According to the statement he issued I am ending this part of my struggle. Starting today, I will in fact break my fast, in celebration of......

Valentine's Day is in the air! How does Bostonist know? Well, aside from the wall-to-wall red that quickly took over our local drugstore's seasonal aisle on January 2 (can someone please figure out a way to market Martin Luther King Day so we can forestall this shit?), we've been noticing all the tell-tale signs: Giddy sidelong glaces among our single coworkers, dreamy, far-off looks in the eyes of our lovelorn friends, marked increases in alcohol......