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Remember Mickey "The Dude" Sullivan, the City Councillor? He's plying around in Harvard Yard again.

The whitewashed professor's lecturn that was rigged up next to the Chinese Dragon statue outside Boylston Hall early this week was all Mickey's idea. "I'm a great student of history," he said last June, "and I want to know what it says on that statue. It may be something of vast importance."

Harvard's Corporation gave the okay this month and up went the translation--read it yourself, if the pigeons haven't beat you to it.

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