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...kind of operation. I think you should change what you're doing here," said Alex Selvig, who unsuccessfully ran for the Allston-Brighton council seat in the preliminary election last fall. "This styrene release can't happen again." Though Harvard representatives and Turner Construction notified residents in the immediate area about the release of styrene when the incident occurred, some residents said they were upset that the broader community was not notified in detail about the incident until a week later. Harvard's Director of Community Relations in Boston, Kevin A. McCluskey '76, said that the University is committed...
...Scott Haig is an Assistant Clinical Professor of Orthopedic Surgery at Columbia University College of Physicians and Surgeons. He has a private practice in the New York City area...
...acted as if these states were truly independent and sovereign, immune from the influence of the old metropolitan center, Moscow. Washington deliberately ignored how Russia had held on to its military bases in the southern tier, how the successor to the KGB stayed more plugged into intelligence from the area than the CIA ever hoped to, and how local leaders flew to Moscow to clear all important decisions. This was the context for Washington's push to get Georgia to join NATO...
Indeed, the human suffering is impossible to ignore. Hundreds have been killed and many more wounded. Refugees from South Ossetia continue to arrive in the area outside the capital, looking for somewhere to live. The past few hours may have been the worst. Late Tuesday morning, four attack helicopters swept in over the brow of the hill and fired incendiary bombs into the wheat field. Villagers ran for cover. It was the second attack in less than 12 hours. In the early hours of this morning, a group of Russian jets bombed a cement factory and railway line...
...trying to do is to make the investment climate and the management environment in Taiwan much more flexible and free. So we're trying to open up, to deregulate, to liberalize as much as possible. All of these measures are intended to make Taiwan a more competitive area in our part of the world...