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Barricaded in their rooms by police caution tape, students in Kirkland House did not know how to react in the stressful aftermath of Monday afternoon’s shooting. Three types of uniforms—Harvard, Cambridge, and state police—quickly flooded the area, but they provided no information. Until an hour later, the much-publicized University Emergency Communication system was mum; the House master did not contact the residents until 5:32 PM, and the only community-wide e-mail we all received was from Dean Evelynn M. Hammonds dealing with, of all things, the shuttle service...
...other details. It's the kind of battle routinely fought all over rural China, pitting powerful local officials and businessmen against ordinary citizens who feel they have been wronged. It's also a struggle that is almost always won by the powers that be. (See pictures of the aftermath of the Sichuan quake...
...that up to 90 civilian had perished in a U.S. operation. The military initially disputed the findings, saying no civilians had died, only Taliban. But after a high-level investigation, widespread protests and heavy pressure from President Karzai, the military revised the civilian death toll to 33. In the aftermath, McKiernan issued a directive that commanders in the field err on the side of caution when fighting near populated areas, opting for disengagement rather than hot pursuit...
...immediate aftermath of his nomination, the search was on for clues to the "real" David Souter. And everyone came up with the same opaque portrait: he was a solitary man, given to serious reading - Shakespeare, Dickens, Proust - and mountain trail hiking. Since the age of 11 he had lived in the same rundown farmhouse near Concord, N.H. Still unmarried at age 50, there was no evidence he was gay - something plenty of people on both sides of the divide investigated as soon as he was nominated...
...immediate aftermath, it’s hard to view the season as anything less than a disappointment...