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...more significant problem concerns the superfluous bag checks at the library exits. At most libraries, if not all, magnetic sensors detect materials that have not been checked out. So what is the rationale for additional checks...
...answer is not to toughen up bag checks. Given that access to the library is controlled, the number of potential thefts is small. Also, the most valuable books Harvard owns are not in the general stacks. These rare and expensive books are kept securely in special collections and have their own security measures. The bag checks simply act as an unnecessary annoyance to library patrons...
...last undecided U.S. Senate race may not mean much in terms of that chamber's balance of power - with 51 seats already in the bag, Republicans are guaranteed at least a majority. But the runoff contest between Louisiana's incumbent Democrat, Mary Landrieu, and her Republican challenger, Suzanne Haik Terrell, does hold a powerful symbolic appeal. A number of GOP VIPs, including President Bush, have campaigned in the state recently to help solidify the party's strong national showing in November; Democrats, mindful that they already need two Jim Jeffords-like defections to retake the Senate, would prefer...
...prematurely. Even more telling is the story of the last bomber Samudra personally sent out on a mission before Bali: the hapless Taufik Abdul Halim. According to his own court testimony, Taufik was dispatched to a Jakarta shopping mall in August 2001 with a bomb concealed in a plastic bag. He reached the target, but the bomb went off before he could escape, blowing off part...
...talk show would, revealing little details at which the audience at home could snicker mercilessly—details that are not worth reporting, and details that are clearly the manifestations of a disordered mind: a job at Chase Manhattan, studies at Harvard, Oxford and Cambridge consecutively, a bag full of tailored business clothing. The article resulted in a mockery of this woman and of her disorder by cross-checking her clearly delusional reports to the alumni newsletters, reporting them as fact, and then exposing her lies as though they could have ever been believed in the first place. It would...