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Senior comes to the rescue and makes headlines--On January 29, senior Kate Kelly and the College's EMT (emergency medical technician) crew splashed onto the pages of the Daily Hampshire Gazette in a story about how area college students are helping out with emergencies at the Five College campuses. The news then appeared in the February 10 edition of Kelley's hometown newspaper, the Telegram & Gazette of Worcester, MA, with a hometown spin describing Kelley's premed art major and her reasons for starting the EMT squad at MHC.
Statistical scrutiny--MHC criminologist and regular National Public Radio commentator Richard Moran devoted a major piece in the Sunday, February 9, Washington Post to looking harder at New York City's recent downswing in serious crime. Is the recent success really due to Mayor Giuliani and former police commissioner William Bratton's tough stance on crime, or has New York City benefited from a nationwide trend?
Solving the riddle of the sphinx--Historian Joe Ellis's new study of Thomas Jefferson, American Sphinx: The Character of Thomas Jefferson, has received the review of all reviews. The February 11 New York Times calls Ellis's new biography "compelling," "fascinating," and "an important and highly readable contribution to the already voluminous literature on this most elusive of America's Founding Fathers."
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