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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...region's affairs. "The government has given local cadres great power, but shown little supervision. They have learned to use the goal of 'stable development' as a shield," the report says. It adds that many officials have learned to use the threat of "outside forces" promoting Tibetan independence to conceal their inability to address local problems...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Failed Government Policies Sparked Tibet Riots | 5/26/2009 | See Source »

...Still, even for cash flush traffickers, these narco-tunnels are not small undertakings. The Otay Mesa tunnel could easily have cost more than a million dollars; several hundred truckloads would have been needed to carry away the excavated soil. Covert tunneling entails more security risks that cost extra to conceal. On top of that, US officials believe they caught the latest sophisticated tunnel soon after it came online...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Underground Threat: Tunnels Pose Trouble from Mexico to Middle East | 5/2/2009 | See Source »

There are a number of instances when it would be reasonable for students to want to conceal that they are getting a ticket through SEF. Tickets to some couples events like formals can be purchased through the program, for example. To have to leave one’s date to go to the SEF table while everyone else is flashing their tickets to enter creates an awkward situation for everyone involved. A similar situation occurs when someone attends an event with a group of friends. While all their pals wait in the main line, they must make their way over...

Author: By George Hayward | Title: Everything Comes With a Price | 5/1/2009 | See Source »

...organization it houses. The headquarters of the Harvard Advocate is more picturesque than pretentious, and save for a crest on the building’s facade, the quaint white siding and green window frames belie the literary clout that lies within.Though the humble exterior may do well to conceal the presence of the country’s oldest continuously published college literary magazine, the interior tells a different story. The Advocate’s past literally envelops the space: the walls of the Sanctum are lined with rows of wooden plaques dating back to 1872. Names written in gold commemorate...

Author: By Liyun Jin, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: 'Advokats' In The Hous | 4/16/2009 | See Source »

...Though the humble exterior may do well to conceal the presence of the country’s oldest continuously published college literary magazine, the interior tells a different story. The Advocate’s past literally envelops the space: the walls of the Sanctum are lined with rows of wooden plaques dating back to 1872. Names written in gold commemorate board members of each guard, the letters fading away with each older plate. To peruse these plaques along the perimeter of the room is to travel back in time through a chronicle of Harvard luminaries—L. Grossman...

Author: By Liyun Jin, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: ‘Advokats’ In The House | 4/15/2009 | See Source »

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