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...drab, treacherous hills along the Afghan-Pakistani border, Morgan Spurlock sticks his head into a cave entrance and shouts, "Yoo-hoo! O-sa-ma!" Alas, there is no answer. This is not a SPOILER ALERT, unless you were maybe expecting to hear a heavily accented voice reply, "Come on in, kid. I've been itching to chat with some American doofus, if he only had the nerve to drop by. And, sure, bring your camera crew in. We'll all do lunch...
...According to HCC director Elizabeth F. Weiss ’09, students have been requesting more intimate performances in addition to larger events such as Yardfest. The Pub’s programming manager, Melissa M. Trahan ’07, said that this event could alert more students to the many performances held at the Pub on a weekly basis. “The entire management staff is excited because this should prominently showcase the Pub as a music venue,” she said. Martin said that she was excited about the performance for other reasons...
Seven months after Harvard launched a campus-wide text message alert system, the Cambridge Police Department (CPD) yesterday started two new safety alert programs of its own: The Cambridge Alert Network and Text-a-Tip. The Cambridge Alert Network will send text messages or e-mails with community safety alert to participants. Text-a-Tip works the other way around, enabling community members to send safety alerts to the CPD so that the police can warn other people through the Cambridge Alert Network. These services are both provided through Citizen Observer, an Internet company that the Boston Police Department...
...said about the film has already been said," says Dick Houtzager, a lawyer specializing in hate speech for the Dutch NGO Art.1. "People aren't as angry or upset as they could have been." Indeed, Dutch politicians had braced themselves for the worst, putting the country on a higher alert and warning other European Union members about possible backlashes. But as most of the morning newspapers headlined, all's quiet the day after, with local Muslim leaders saying the film was not as offensive as they had feared...
...conference call Thursday night, spokesman Sean McCormack said the department's initial theory is that this was nothing more than "imprudent curiosity" on the part of employees doing administrative work. Their actions came to light because of computer software, relatively recently installed, that sends out an alert when the files of high-profile individuals are being accessed...