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SJC: Marijuana odor not enough for police to order driver from vehicle
-- John Reinstein, legal director of the American Civil Liberties Union of Massachusetts
The logic escapes me. . . . In my mind, the odor of marijuana is clearly enough evidence of illegal activity to justify ordering those inside to exit the vehicle.
-- Boston Police Commissioner Edward F. Davis
Expired food given to prisoners
-- Leslie Walker, executive director of Prisoners' Legal Service
It’s been a good way to serve good food very frugally in terms of the budget. It’s not rancid food. It’s not spoiled food.
-- Richard McCarthy, spokesman for the Hampden County Sheriff’s Department
Harvard president confronted on professor's ties to Libya
Harry Lewis, a Harvard professor who has criticized financial ties between a senior academic and Libyan dictator Moammar Khadafy.
We are finding ourselves increasingly involved as individuals and as an institution with the world around us. ... These interactions require us all to be sensitive and self-reflective about our engagements.
Harvard President Drew Faust
McGrory: Wowed in Worcester
Unfortunately, I have lived in Worcester all my life, and it is an ugly, bombed-out, filthy, old, exhausted New England mill town that will probably never rise again.
-- Scott Wolfe, responding to Brian McGrory's column, "Wowed in Worcester"
The city does have excellent restaurants, world-class colleges, and a surging biotech industry. ... Maybe the next time McGrory is in Worcester, he could actually try a meal or explore the city's other virtues.
-- Rory Harrity
Two men rescued after roof of Lynn parking garage collapses
We were just sitting there, drinking coffee, thinking how great life was.
-- Peter Sullivan, one of the two men who survived when a Lynn parking garage roof collapsed on their car
We looked up. We saw the roof coming down.
-- Cesar Jimenez, the other survivor
Brown surveys storm damage in Scituate
-- Carmen Tirado, whose Scituate home flooded during Sunday's nor'easter
There are a lot of pieces to the puzzle. We'll need cooperation from the federal, private, and state agencies to solve the problems, and they are very large.
-- US Senator Scott Brown, who surveyed storm damage in the town on Thursday
2009 parole of officer's killer gets a hard look
-- Dominic Cinelli, who allegedly killed a Woburn police officer on Sunday, asking the Massachusetts Parole Board for parole in 2008
I don't know how any member of the Parole Board justifies that. He shouldn't have been out, and now there's another person dead.
-- Laurie Myers, president of Community Voices, a crime victim advocacy group
City to ask more from nonprofits
-- Roy Schifilliti, a Wheelock College vice president, commenting on Boston's request for more PILOT payments.
Long term, what’s really going to be important is that everybody thinks they are getting the same fair shake. What we heard was that institutions really weren’t aware of what arrangements their compatriot institutions had, so that brought a natural reluctance for anybody to step forward.
-- Stephen W. Kidder, PILOT task force chairman
N.H. man saves Mass. skater who fell through ice
-- Rindge, N.H., Fire Chief Richard Donovan, commenting on the rescue of a man who had fallen through the ice by lakeside resident Peter W. Sherwin and another man
Nobody drowns in Pete's territory.
-- Peter W. Sherwin
Tight finances, tough choices
Tough choices are going to have to be made.
-- Administration and Finance Secretary Jay Gonzalez, speaking this morning at a State House hearing
Many places are struggling to recover. In Boston, we're recovering from the struggle.
-- Mayor Thomas M. Menino, speaking this morning at a Greater Boston Chamber of Commerce event
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