| Traffic stop nets drunken driver, police say
Alan F. Nori, 39, was arrested at 3:24 a.m. for allegedly operating a vehicle while intoxicated and driving under suspension after police stopped him near the intersection of Orchard Street and Roosevelt Boulevard. Jessica Lemaster reported the theft of her purse from the back of an unlocked car parked in the 3200 block of Andrew Street. The theft occurred sometime between 1 and 6 a.m. Kelvin Thomas reported a break-in at 11:09 a.m. at an apartment in the 3100 block of Wilbraham Road. Thomas felt resistance when he tried to open the apartment's door and then, while checking the back, he saw a man fleeing along the canal. A fire safe, Nintendo game cube and games and prescription medication were stolen. A woman in the 2900 block of North Carmody Boulevard called police a short while later and reported a man had thrown away a safe in the dumpster.
TheStar.com | Sports | Shaquille O'Neal traded to Suns in blockbuster ...
O'Neal's move west adds fuel to the already intense rivalry between the Suns, the Lakers and his old teammate Kobe Bryant. The trade required a significant financial commitment from the budget-conscious owner Robert Sarver because O'Neal is scheduled to make $20 million (all figures U.S.) this season and $20 million more each of the next two. Marion makes $16.4 million this year and could opt out of the $17 million final year of his contract after this season. Banks has been in and out of the Suns' rotation the past two seasons. The Heat also waived Luke Jackson. O'Neal entered this season talking about how he wanted to win at least one more title, saying his "legacy" wouldn't be complete unless he left the game with at least five rings.
Carlson GMAC closing three North Shore offices
A total of seven jobs, mostly managers and office staff, have been cut at the three North Shore offices being shut, according to Judy O'Brien, a GMAC executive.
Sales associates and other employees from the Danvers office will be consolidated into the Beverly office. Staff at the Lynn and Swampscott offices will work out of the Marblehead office.
Additionally, the corporate offices in Woburn will be relocated to Carlson GMAC's Beverly office.
The restructuring is driven by the growing use of technology by customers and real estate agents, O'Brien said.
"The new, younger consumers in today's marketplace are really doing their business online," she said. "Most of our agents' business is done on the phone or by e-mail. They really don't need to be physically housed in an office the way they used to be."
O'Brien said the company has been working on this restructuring for more than a year.
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They were too busy hiding in cellars. Although Halloween began as a Celtic event to ward off evil spirits during the harvest, and later became a quasi-Christian holiday honouring saints, little seems left today of its spiritual roots. That is unless you happen to revere horror films or be a true worshipper of chocolate bars. So, slowly but surely, Jewish children have come out of the basement. They've donned masks and held out bags for treats. In so doing, the community has shed its fears of the past and begun to participate enthusiastically in the world around it. There are, of course, religious reasons not to celebrate a holiday that has its roots in paganism, but many Jews don't want a history lesson when it comes to their kids. They just want some innocent fun.
With GUSA, Everybody Loses
They touched upon a litany of issues familiar to anyone who has paid even minimal attention to GUSA in the past year: the alcohol policy, the lack of uninterrupted wireless Internet access on campus, the need for student unity, and so on, and so on and so on. But nobody talked about self-segregation on campus, the tendency for Hoyas of similar racial backgrounds to sometimes break off into different groups with suspicious attitudes toward one another. It's a serious problem at Georgetown that was made all too evident in the wake of this newspaper's coverage of the Jena Six incident last semester. Few talked about Georgetown's homophobia, a viral impulse among some that lurks below the surface on campus but cropped up last semester in shameful hate-motivated crimes. Nobody talked about how Georgetown's financial constraints have affected the way financial aid is allocated, forcing the Office of Admissions to offer alumni-funded grants to as many underprivileged students as it can, in sharp contrast to schools with higher endowments that can offer much broader assistance.
Multinationals: Are They Good for America?
Flush with cash from booming overseas sales, the glass giant is amping up its product development efforts at home. "It's important for the functioning of our innovation machine that we be in one location," says Corning Inc. President Peter F. Volanakis. That's good news for the residents of Steuben County, where Corning is the largest employer. Since 2005 they have watched their unemployment rate drop faster than thatof neighboring counties, in part because of Corning's commitment to the area and its ability to sell around the world. Americans are going to need quite a few more Cornings—global companies willing to invest in the U.S.—to ease the pain of the economic slowdown. The big multinationals are the go-to guys right now: They've got plenty of cash and soaring profits from overseas operations.
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