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Anti-Semitism has been an issue at Harvard since at least the beginning of the last century. A. Lawrence Lowell, the University president in the 1920s, compared Harvard to “a summer hotel that is ruined by admitting Jews,” and tried to set quotas limiting the number of Jews at the University...
...about a hundred members of the press flew into Islamabad on an accompanying press charter. This planned capital, with its broad boulevards, was completely empty save for troops lining the road. Still, when the U.S. embassy official on my bus urged us all to stay close to our hotel, there was some nervous laughter. The press corps may fancy itself to be tough, but no one needed persuading to stay within well defined security zones...
When a massive bomb took out the face of the Marriott Hotel Thursday morning in the southern Pakistani city of Karachi, rocking the nearby US consulate and killing US diplomatic officer David Foy along with at least four others, the explosion could be heard from houses more than six miles away...
...explosion took place at 9:05 am on a heavily fortified backstreet between the hotel parking lot and the rear vehicle entrance of the US consulate. The sophistication of the attack suggested advance planning, and Foy's armored 4X4 appears to have been directly targeted. The entire street is closed to pedestrians and public transport, and all vehicles entering the area must pass stringent security precautions, including inspection of vehicle trunks and chassis. Yet, according to a security officer on the scene who has seen surveillance footage, a white Toyota Corolla passed the initial inspection...
...Once he saw Foy's diplomatic vehicle pass through the security barrier, the man jumped into his car and rammed it into the 4X4, detonating a bomb with a force strong enough to obliterate both vehicles, shatter every window of the 10-story hotel's western face and send nearby military jeeps flying 50 feet over concrete barriers. More than 50 people have been reported gravely injured and television footage shows clothing, limbs and debris from the blast tangled in telephone and electricity wires...