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...Japanese ambassador's residence in Lima, hunkered down in a winding, steel-braced tunnel complex. Loaded down with weapons, ammunition and body armor, they still had enough room to rest and try to sleep. The tunnels were the work of professional miners, and the troops could walk upright, two abreast, through lighted and ventilated chambers. In the morning, after a final planning session, their officers slipped through nearby buildings and into the tunnels to join the 140 army, navy and air-force special-operations forces underground for the attack. Lieut. Colonel Juan Valer Sandoval, leader of a squad, sat down...
This upgrade is a positive sign, for it signals not only the administration's commitment to keep Harvard abreast of the latest computer technology, but also an acknowledgement of the indispensability of e-mail on the Harvard campus. A defunct e-mail system means a non-functioning student body. Without e-mail, no one would be able to communicate effectively with professors, teaching fellows, and friends and family back home...
Mayer identified three areas on which he will focus at Harvard: maintaining the relationship between HDS and students, keeping abreast of culinary changes and shifts in students' tastes and making Loker Commons financially viable and responsive to student preferences...
Landers added that she receives a subscription of The Crimson at her Washington office and reads it to keep abreast of events on campus. She said she did not know whether all of the board's 30 members read campus publications...
Even as she sped past her 100th year, Sister Mary projected the energy and enthusiasm of a much younger woman. With the aid of a magnifying glass, she kept abreast of national affairs by reading newspapers and magazines. With the aid of a globe, she prayed for the women and children of the world, one continent at a time. In fact, so savvy did Sister Mary seem, so tuned in to her surroundings, that University of Kentucky epidemiologist David Snowdon began to think of her as a kind of gold standard for successful aging...