Brad Marchand celebrated winning the Stanley Cup with gusto. You remember that Foxwoods event. He also got a tattoo with a spelling error. He fixed it, though. [Yardbarker.com] Remember to follow Bostonist on Twitter and like us on Facebook.
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Today is the actual 91st anniversary of Armistice Day. [National Geographic]
There are discounts for veterans at some restaurants and shops today. [WHDH]
A Cape Cod man has played "Taps" on Veterans Day for more than 80 years. [NPR]
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After being told he would never walk again, a Hyde Park man walks a mile for charity. [Boston Herald]
After 21 years, an Ipswich man has completed his across the Appalachian Trail. [Herald-Mail]
A Kenyan won the Boston Half Marathon. [Boston Herald]
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Four are injured after their SUV crashes into a historic Newport mansion. [Providence Eyewitness News]
A man was hit by a light pole in Brookline while trying to help the driver who ran into it. [WHDH]
Economic signs in New England are generally positive. [Boston Herald]
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Whoever stole a laptop from Anna's Taqueria has also put a major dent in cancer research. [Boston Herald]
Classified Afghanistan War documents probably ended up on WikiLeaks with the help of someone in Boston. [The Phoenix]
There is some legal debate on how legally creepy one can be on the T. [Boston Herald]
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Is it so wrong to be party animals (under assumed identities while working for a foreign government)? [Boston Globe]
One of the Cambridge spy suspects was associated with a futurist technology group. [Boston Herald]
Restaurants will be able to serve booze two hours earlier on Sundays. Who says government doesn't help the common people? [Boston Globe]
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Remember the Rhode Island school district that fired all the teachers? They're probably going to rehire all of them back. [Providence Journal]
Israel has barred MIT professor Noam Chomsky from entering the country to speak at a Palestinian university. [NY Times]
If a Harvard student hadn't been caught hacking into his teachers' grading systems, he probably could've had a brilliant career on Wall Street. [WBZ]
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MIT is opening a solar technology lab, which is mainly funded by an Italian energy company. [Boston Globe]
Thanks to its bankruptcy, a cache of historic Polaroid items is going to MIT. [CNet]
Former Harvard Law dean, Elena Kagan, has been nominated to be the newest Supreme Court justice. [Washington Post]
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Results tagged “mit”
Massachusetts' first EEE victim this year, 80-year old Martin Newfield of Raynham, died on Monday at at St. Elizabeth’s Medical Center in Brighton. He had four children and 13 grandchildren. [Taunton Gazette] Matthew Stuart reportedly died of a drug overdose on Saturday. [WCVB]Remember to follow Bostonist on Twitter and like us on Facebook.
MIT professor Peter Diamond has withdrawn his nomination to the Federal Reserve’s board of governors after Republicans opposed his candidacy. Senator Richard Shelby (R-Alabama) said he lacked the "appropriate background" for the job. Diamond is a 2010 Nobel Prize in Economic Sciences. Shelby is from Alabama. [Boston Globe] Remember to follow Bostonist on Twitter and like us on Facebook.
Police evacuated two dormitories and nine students at MIT due to unidentified "suspicious materials" that were discovered there today. The Cambridge police bomb squad thought the materials could explode and used a water cannon “disrupt” the materials. Contractors found the materials on the third floor of the building at 471 Memorial Drive around 7:30 a.m. Firefighters responded and alerted the bomb squad. Police closed Memorial Drive around 10 a.m. to difuse the materials. WCVB reported the second evacuation and identified the dorm as the New House building. Cambridge police and MIT are investigating.
Cambridge is America's most well-read city, according to Amazon.com. Yes, the smart kids at Harvard and MIT have a lot to do with it, too. Amazon's top 20 most well-read cities include many college locales. Runner-up Alexandria, Virginia hosts George Washington University and Virginia Commonwealth University satellite campuses; Berkeley and Ann Arbor, Michigan are also near the top of the list. The results are based on print and digital sales of books, magazines, and newspapers on Amazon.com. Does buying books mean you automatically read them?
The visual show put on by the MIT Festival of Arts and Technology's FAST Light impressed everyone. A week later, the images are still very impressive.
The Commonwealth Corp., part of the Executive Office of Labor and Workforce Development, is launching a "YouthWorks" website designed to connect teens with summer jobs. Employers can list jobs at www.massyouthemployment.org. Remember to follow Bostonist on Twitter and like us on Facebook.
Former Mayoral candidate and City Councilor Michael F. Flaherty plans to run for City Councilor at Large. Beacon Hill lawmakers are reviewing the state's tax codes this week. Remember to follow Bostonist on Twitter and like us on Facebook.
Just two Boston firefighers out of 1,000 failed random drug tests, the Boston Fire Department said. And, 57% of Local 718 firefighters have been tested in two years. Remember to follow Bostonist on Twitter and like us on Facebook.
Boston continues to react to the Japanese earthquake and tsunami.
Revere police arrested the owner of Maya Transportation on March 2 for sexually assaulting a five-year old girl from Everett on a school van. He was arraigned at Chelsea District Court on Thursday and charged with rape of a child and indecent assault and battery on a child. He is held on $100,000 cash bail after pleading not guilty. [WCVB]
Four decades after banning the Reserve Officer Training Corps (ROTC) over the Vietnam War, Harvard University will recognize the Navy ROTC program and welcome it back to campus today after a ceremony at Loeb House with Secretary Ray Mabus. The ROTC is back after the military's "don't ask don't tell" policy that banned gays and lesbians from serving openly was repealed.
Noam Chomsky, the professor emeritus of linguistics at MIT, is speaking at the Unitarian Universalist Church in Bridgewater on Thursday, February 24 from 5-8 p.m. Chomsky will discuss social justice and people centered movements, like the recent protests in Egypt and other Midde Eastern nations. The talk is sponsored by Unitarian Church's Social Justice Committee and the Social Justice League of Bridgewater State University. A donation of $15, or a $5 low income donation, is suggested at the door. Proceeds will go to the Social Justice Committee. [Taunton Gazette]
Today is the day. Harvard and Yale stage the 127th edition of The Game at Harvard Stadium at noon. Yale (7-2) leads the series 65-53-8. Harvard (6-3) won 14-10 in 2009.
- The number of international college students at colleges and universities in Massachusetts jumped 4.4% to 35,313. Massachusetts is fourth in the nation in international college students. [Boston Globe]
- Forbes magazine says Boston has the 10th highest rent in the country at an average of $1,000. [WCVB]
- MIT is in demand as undergraduate early action applications increased 14% this year. [The Tech]
An employee at Anna's Taqueria was stabbed by a co-worker on Wednesday after an argument on MIT's campus. The incident happened at 4:30 p.m. at the MIT Student Center. No arrests have been made, but the following description of a suspect was released: Hispanic, age 20-30, 5’8’’ to 5’9’’ wearing a red and black baseball cap with the letter C and wearing light blue jeans. The victim sustained non-life threatening injuries. The men knew each other. Call MIT police at 617-253-1212 or dial 100 from any campus phone. All charges alleged until proven under law. [Wicked Local Cambridge]
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Earlier today, we posted photographs of the scifi cult object that recently appeared on the roof of MIT building 7. After a closer inspection of the images, we have deciphered the text on the left door.
Cambridge is a place where a young man can wear a bow tie unironically, where whimsical new technologies are as abundant as tweed, where plenty of people are addressed as "Doctor." A time traveler might blend in, if it weren't for this extremely blue box that landed on MIT.
Harvard has to be happy today after being ranked as the best national university by US News and World Report. Take that Princeton Review and your best library title. Harvard shared the US News and World Report title with Princeton in 2009.
New England has lots of universities. Not enough, though. We're getting six more in October thanks to Massachusetts lawmakers.
