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This used to be a municipal yard where the city parked dump trucks, steamrollers, backhoes and other vehicles. Norris and other officers had another spot in mind for the outpost, which overlooks the point where the main road linking Baghdad and northern Iraq meets a major artery running east and west. But insurgents had watched the troops as they scouted locations, and a sick comedy of explosions unfolded. Soldiers would eye a building and develop plans to occupy it, only to see it bombed shortly after they had visited it. At some point, someone graffitied a misspelled insult in English...
...main reason Visa can contemplate an IPO now is that, for all the troubles, large parts of the global financial system continue to function just fine. If you have bad credit and want a mortgage or you run a private-equity firm and want to finance a $15 billion takeover, forget it. But if your credit's O.K. and you want to charge a trip to Hawaii or you're the profitable, growing leader of the global electronic-payments business and you want to raise $15-plus billion...
...close relationship with the local Grolier Poetry Book Shop and commissioned several poems from distinguished poets such as Donald Hall ’51. But when Pyper first walked into the press four years ago, he found the space in shambles.Today, the Bow and Arrow Press caters mainly to students who wish to create flyers for their groups and events. Most students find out about the press through word-of-mouth and as a result, Pyper estimates that only 100 students take advantage of its facilities each semester.“Of that, there are maybe 10 or 15 that...
...Internet Safety Technical Task Force, headed by John G. Palfrey, Jr. ’94 of the Berkman Center for Internet and Society, is the main product of an agreement last month between all fifty state Attorneys General and MySpace to take steps to better protect underage users. By the end of the year, the task force will publish recommendations for MySpace to improve its safety policies...
...Hard Core” goes even further in viewer participation than television reality shows like “The Real World.” Stories shared on the website about sexual intimacy at Harvard may be incorporated into the script and may even serve as the main basis for new episodes.“The show is a pioneer in that we’re exploring the space outside of the dramatic episode,” Berman says. The creators hope that the new series will become part of Harvard life in a very tangible...