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...early days at Harvard, I thought I had escaped from your shadow—an idea which lasted about two years until my first Crimson interview with University President Lawrence H. Summers. You drop the H-bomb, everyone wants to know your SAT scores. You drop the S-bomb, everyone—including Harvard’s own president—wants to know if Michael Steinhardt is your father...

Author: By Jenifer L. Steinhardt, | Title: My Two Dads | 7/2/2004 | See Source »

...package did not contain a bomb, nor bomb-making materials,” Cambridge Police Department spokesperson Frank T. Pasquarello said. “But we take every threat seriously...

Author: By Alan J. Tabak, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Suspicious Box Prompts Holyoke Evacuation | 7/2/2004 | See Source »

...physician James G. Cacciola said elderly patients in particular were likely inconvenienced by the bomb scare...

Author: By Alan J. Tabak, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Suspicious Box Prompts Holyoke Evacuation | 7/2/2004 | See Source »

...special-forces person, you're more psychologically prepared than [if] one day you're cleaning teeth, or working in a car garage, or selling stuff at the Wal-Mart, and a week later you're riding in a personnel vehicle down a street in Baghdad waiting for a bomb to go off and take your life away. Now, that's like my problems--an explanation is not a justification. There is no justification for that...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: His Side of The Story | 6/28/2004 | See Source »

During one classroom session, an expert briefed us on the vast array of bombs available to terrorists, from so-called pregnancy bombs (strapped to a woman's stomach) to tiny ones set off by $5 watches to cell-phone-triggered devices. The instructor went over some of the four types and 700 models of hand grenades. Another bomb specialist noted, "You guys are the only law-enforcement agents who have to move toward an explosive device rather than away from it." He explained how to place blankets and luggage around an onboard bomb so that if it goes...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: My Life As An Air Cop | 6/28/2004 | See Source »

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