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...What happened on Monday was a tragedy; we should all mourn the loss of 21-year-old Justin Cosby, who died yesterday at Beth Israel Hospital of the gunshot wound he received in the basement of Kirkland’s J entryway. Yet it is quite telling that Sherman received that sort of reply from a police officer. Proper communication is part of protection—and on Monday, the university utterly failed in that regard. Most worrisome, this is indicative of a larger trend in the way the administration has been interacting with the student body lately...
...system of taxes, roads and courts. By the final weeks of conflict, he was believed to be using thousands of Tamil civilians as human shields against the advance of the Sri Lankan military. At the time of his death, 250 core LTTE members stood with him. Few will mourn the end of a man who ruthlessly ordered the murder of his opponents, demanded absolute fealty and pioneered the use of suicide bombings...
...policy specialists say, has been done with the complicity and connivance of successive French governments maintaining the traditional Françafrique policy of retaining influence among former colonies. French lawyers for each of the leaders have flatly refuted the allegations. In Gabon - where Bongo is in temporary seclusion to mourn the death of his wife - government spokesman Alain Akouala Atipault assured that "there's nothing concrete in this affair, and there will be nothing legally concrete." Though French officials initially refused to comment on Desset's ruling, Paris prosecutor, Jean-Claude Marin, announced Thursday he had appealed her decision...
...matter how the Chrysler bankruptcy works out, there will be no reason for Americans to mourn. Chrysler is not going to die. One or two of its brands may disappear but most of them have value. The cars may run on engines built by a Japanese car company and part of what is left of Chrysler may be operated by a firm headquartered in Germany. But, each new Jeep will still be a Jeep. The fact that it is the Jeep brand sells cars and trucks...
...middle-class suburb with streets filled with single homes, one and two stories high, with garages and mom-and-pop shops, with interior patios and small gardens lined with flower pots, is the street where Adela lived with her husband and daughters. There, Jose Luis continues to mourn his wife. He wants her passing to have meaning. "What I want is [a piece of official] paper that says that she had this flu. I just want to see it in writing. I want my daughters to know that even in death she helped others. They say she was the first...