Bite Size News, February 5: Fired! Edition
- Boston Police Commissioner Edward Davis fired Justin Barrett, the Boston police officer who referred to Harvard professor Henry Louis Gates Jr. as a "banana-eating jungle monkey." [Boston Globe]
- The White House says President Obama plans to meet with the Dalai Lama later this month. No date was announced, however the Dalai Lama is expected to be in Washington, D.C. on February 17-18. China is displeased. [CBS News]
- Jeff Vinik, a Red Sox minority owner and former manager of the Magellan fund, is about to buy the Tampa Bay Lightning. [WBZ]
- An emergency room nurse from Foxboro shares her stories from her 11-day tip to Haiti to treat earthquake victims. [Attleboro Sun Chronicle]
- Jillian Fennimore of the Cambridge Chronicle has been named “Journalist of the Year” by Suburban Newspapers of America. [Cambridge Chronicle]
- Is the threat from H1N1 over? [WBZ]
- Consider this a PSA: Nude Internet pics probably have nothing to do with your job. Hence, NSFW. [StyleList.com]
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