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Where is Lucia Whalen hiding? She's the woman who on Thursday, July 16, 2009 around 12:30pm called Cambridge, Massachusetts police to say that, "two large black men with backpacks" were breaking into a house on Ware St. Ware St. is not far from Harvard Square, and anyone living in that vicinity is usually affiliated with Harvard University or very wealthy. Turns out the person she saw breaking in was esteemed scholar of African American history, Prof. Henry Louis Gates, Jr. trying to get into his own home! T urns out he and his chaffeuer were wearing suits, there were three...

Looks like she won't be joining them for a beer. Lucia Whalen, the woman who set Gatesgate in motion with a 911 call to Cambridge police, has been silent ever since - and she plans to stay that way. "She doesn't want to do anything publicly," her sister, Helena Mancini, told the Daily News over the phone on Saturday. The Gates quagmire began shortly after lunch on July 16 when Whalen, a 40-year-old fund-raiser for Harvard magazine, saw from her office window what appeared to be two suspicious men trying to break in to Gates' house. According to the police...