Word: preparedness
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On the night of Sept. 10, general Sultan Hashem Ahmed was prepared to die. He had written his will and left instructions about where his body should be buried. All that remained was to wait for his appointment with the hangman. At the gallows, there was extra security to thwart...
Finally, a morsel of reason seems to have prevailed in the ongoing standoff between University Hall and the Undergraduate Council (UC) over the UC’s party fund. Don’t get too excited—the future of the party fund has yet to be resolved, student...
But we weren't prepared for the overweening bureaucratic scrutiny the agency subjected us to. There were long, psychological exam-style questionnaires to fill out, strict contractual pledges to sign - and interrogations of the neighbors, whose names we had to submit as character references. When the agency finally delivered the...
The most significant of the two developments came as unions representing French public service workers fulfilled threats to bring transportation across the nation to a crawl on Thursday, with strikes protesting proposed tightening of pension schemes. The action forced millions of French commuters to drive, cycle, walk, or roller-blade...
Kathleen H. Chen ’09 arrives at The Crimson calmly prepared for a challenge. As she picks up her 24 dollars for her 24 hours of designing, she is nonplussed when the theme of Metropolis is revealed. Two hours later, Chen, sporting purple slip-on shoes and black...