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...cases underway from New Zealand to Britain - investors battled their own nerves. Recovering slightly from earlier losses, Britain's FTSE 100 index of leading shares was down just under 1% in early afternoon trading. Indices in France and Germany, likewise up on their earlier lows Monday, were nonetheless subdued amid the global jitters triggered by the spread of the flu virus. Earlier, shares in Hong Kong closed down...
...Saturday, amid all the pageantry of Harvard-Yale, Senior Day, and Spring Weekend, the men’s lacrosse team looked to accomplish something it had not achieved since 2004: a winning season. In its final game at Harvard Stadium this year, the Crimson (7-5, 2-3 Ivy) led the Bulldogs (5-7, 1-5 Ivy) throughout the contest and pulled away late, winning, 13-8, and ensuring a record over .500.“It was just a great win,” captain Max Mottschwiller said. “We needed to get this...
...Amid a wave of new regulations regarding physician-industry ties, Stossel has stood largely alone as a vocal and vehement opponent of new oversight at the Medical School, where he says administrators have blindly accepted new rules to quiet recent controversies over such relationships...
...Amid the politically charged debate over the techniques, Soufan's criticism carries special weight because it comes from someone intimately familiar with the little-understood art of extracting information from hard-as-nails jihadists. As a supervisory special agent from 1997 to 2005 - and one of the FBI's few Arabic speakers - Soufan was involved in a string of crucial investigations and interrogations, from the Millennium Bombing plot in Jordan to the U.S.S. Cole bombing in Yemen and a number of Gitmo interrogations. His greatest success was the interrogation of Abu Jandal, bin Laden's former bodyguard. After the 9/11...
Harvard originally banned ROTC from campus 40 years ago, amid anti- Vietnam War sentiment. Since then, Harvard has continued to ban the program citing the military’s “Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell” policy, which prevents openly gay people from serving in the armed forces...