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Harvard went on to score seven runs in the inning, six of which came with two outs, to take a commanding 9-5 lead heading into the seventh and final inning...
...very large buck that is responsibility for the bombing of the Chinese embassy in Belgrade last May has stopped, and landed square in the laps of seven CIA managers. The toll: One unnamed senior official fired and six others reprimanded by CIA director George Tenet for their roles. The key finding for the agency: It doesn't have, um, anyformal procedure in place for selecting targets for military use. The details make that painfully clear: Although agents obtained the correct street address for the intended target, a Serbian government supply office, the two-year-old map the agency was using...
...aggressively but uniformly enforced. The "broken windows" theory articulated by James Q. Wilson and George Kelling is not intrinsically problematic: disorder does cause fear, which eliminates social control, inviting illicit activities. And it seems to be working: violent crime is down 49 percent in New York, compared with seven percent in Chicago and six percent in Philadelphia...
...Following Dean's instructions, I arrived at Tower later in the evening. Slightly early, I joined some women to watch the end of Seven. In the brief intermission between the evening two's feature films, I suddenly heard someone behind me talking about "this random Harvard chick." Upon turning around, I discovered Dean, who had apparently been letting his club-mates know that Random Harvard Chick would be coming to see him and would come in looking really confused and lost. Amazingly enough, I was neither...
...renovation, which took three weeks to complete, was an attempt to address students' dissatisfaction with the Law School athletic facilities. In a survey conducted by McKinsey and Co., students rated their satisfaction with athletic facilities a 1.5 on a scale of one to seven on average...