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...majority of the residents in the unhappy column. Clavery residents even admit to trying to pick up non-Harvard network signals to increase wireless capabilities.Joshua A. Kroll ’09, president of the Harvard Computer Society (HCS), says he uses a desktop computer most of the time to avoid wireless woes. “I know that my roommates who use laptops as their primary computers will sometimes plug in if they’re getting really frustrated with the wireless,” the Adams resident says. But he also notes, “it?...
...presence of American military power makes the job of the central government more difficult still; U.S. military commanders on the ground are busy undermining its power by diverting major resources to local agents like the Awakening Councils in Anbar province. If you are a political leader, better to avoid difficult decisions, rather than take steps that will alienate some part of your anticipated future constituency...
...peach-colored home, close to 1,000 people recently gathered for the city's first free No Homeowner Left Behind seminar, sponsored in part by the city and the local newspaper, the Modesto Bee. Worried residents gathered to spend their Saturday talking to lenders about how they can avoid losing their own homes. "I'm stressed and in turmoil and have butterflies in my stomach," says P.J. Scruggs, who says she is two months behind in paying her mortgage. She is afraid she will lose the home that has been in her family for 35 years. "It's scary - this...
...master of triangulation is no stranger to balancing acts. And for most of the weekend, the former President managed to avoid the increasingly contentious battle for delegates between Senators Clinton and Barack Obama. He got a standing ovation when he took the stage before some 700 college students - many, no doubt, Obama supporters - and Clinton was clearly relishing being back in the spotlight...
...came in late 2005, when he says he and a group of roughly 14 other Iraqis drove to the southern city of Amarah, near the Iranian border. Everything had been arranged through contacts in Syria and Lebanon, where he and his group had fled for a time trying to avoid capture by American forces. According to Ali, a convoy of new sport utility vehicles with drivers speaking only broken Arabic was waiting for them in Amarah. Soon the group was on the road east for a five-hour drive. The destination was an Iranian training facility, where instructors told...