Word: personnel
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Murphy stressed Harvard’s resilience all year long, and for a team that dealt with crippling injuries and major personnel overhauls and still came away with a 6-1 league record, the hats seem a fitting remnant of the 2009 Crimson football squad that never quit...
...union—comprised of a thousand custodial and security personnel across campus—has begun a listening tour with professors, secretaries, managers, deans, janitors, students, alumni, security guards, researchers, donors, and representatives from the Cambridge community. Engaging in broad-based, frank discussions of where our university is headed means embarking on an unfamiliar, uphill road for each of us, one that demands trust, overcoming old divisions and stereotypes, and realizing that, as partners, we can alter Harvard’s course. This, then, is the crossroads at which Harvard finds itself...
...prosecutors' charge sheet carries a detailed description of Demjanjuk's alleged duties at Sobibor. "When the transport train carrying Jews arrived, the normal work was stopped and each member of the camp personnel became involved in the routine extermination process," the document reads. After the Jews were ordered out of the cars, they were told to leave their luggage on the ramps and take off their clothes, the charge sheet says. They were then allegedly led to the gas chambers under the pretext they were taking a shower. Holocaust experts have also linked the Sobibor guards to mass executions...
...Such comments echo those heard in 2007 after Iran's Revolutionary Guards detained 15 U.K. servicemen in the disputed Shatt al-Arab waterway that runs between Iran and Iraq. Back then, Tehran accused the Brits of trespassing in its waters. (London insisted the personnel had been patrolling Iraqi seas.) The 15 were pardoned and released by Ahmadinejad after being held for two weeks. Three years earlier, eight British servicemen snatched in the same area were also accused of trespassing. In both cases, the British military personnel were paraded on Iranian television. "Whether it's premeditated or the actions...
...sailors Iran is now holding are not military personnel, and Iran's next move is more difficult to predict. Britain was resurrected as "Little Satan" in Iranian propaganda this year and accused by the regime of directly fomenting the turmoil on the streets of Iran that followed the disputed re-election of Ahmadinejad in June. An Iranian employee of the British embassy in Tehran was sentenced last month to four years in jail for his alleged involvement in the demonstrations. (See pictures of people around the world protesting Iran's election...