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...THURSDAY, SEPT. 27 During last night's curfew, troops surge into monasteries across the city, beating and arresting monks. At Ngwe Kyar Yan, a monastery famed for its leadership role in the 1988 uprising, the floors are puddled with blood and the thin dormitory walls perforated with what Burmese call "rubber bullets." They are actually ball-bearings with a thin rubber coating, shot from a 40-mm cartridge. A direct hit at close range can take out eyes, crack skulls, stop hearts...
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...former Harvard goalie will soon take charge of Canada’s macroeconomic goals. Mark J. Carney ’87, Canada’s senior associate deputy minister of finance was named the next governor of the Bank of Canada last Thursday and will assume the seven-year position in February. Carney, who concentrated in economics and lived in Winthrop House, received his master’s degree and doctorate in economics from Oxford. “He was someone who the younger members of the team looked up to,” William C. Kennish...
...Class Committee. Those who ran had to obtain 25 classmate signatures and submit a resume. The Senior Class Committee is composed of the eight elected marshals as well as representatives from each of the 13 Houses, who will be elected next week. Petitions for that election are due this Thursday. Tennant said “a lot of students from different circles” were selected for the group of marshals. “I’m really excited to get the committee together and just brainstorm ideas and try to get as much input and feedback from students...
...Treasurer Anthony R. Britt ’10, will also meet separately this afternoon with Dean Paul J. McLoughlin II, who is in charge of authorizing the UC’s receipt of its termbill money. Petersen said yesterday that the UC had requested a check from McLoughlin last Thursday, and that the dean had suggested today’s meeting would concern how money would be disbursed to the UC’s treasury this year...