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Returning from China last July, Gates was arrested for disorderly conduct at his home when passer-by Lucia Whalen called police to report a possible break-in. A police report said that Gates was exhibiting “tumultuous behavior” and accusing the police officer, Sgt. James Crowley, of prejudice, while an account of the events written on behalf of Gates in the African-American culture magazine “The Root” said he was arrested after following Crowley outside and asking for his name and badge number...
...secure facility that houses hundreds of kilograms of weapons-grade uranium in South Africa. The attackers gained access to the facility's control room and shot an emergency-services officer in the chest. They fled without making any effort to steal the nuclear material, and the reason for the break-in and the attackers' identity remain a mystery. "The break-in validated what we do. Current international security guidelines are woefully inadequate," Bieniawski says, adding that no amount of physical protection can provide total security or combat the "insider threat." All confirmed cases of illicit trafficking...
...Louis "Skip" Gates, Jr. was arrested by Cambridge police at his own home in July, prompting a national discussion about racial profiling and sparking a media frenzy that ensnared even President Barack Obama. Police were tipped off by a passerby who says she saw what appeared to be a break-in at the home. But the individuals she saw were actually Gates and his car driver forcing their way through the professor's jammed front door. Police Sgt. James Crowley, who arrived on the scene to investigate, said that Gates reacted belligerently and refused to identify himself when asked...
According to the Yale Daily News, a freshman left the university mid-semester in the fall of 2007 due to medical conditions—a freshman who chalked “Dauphin” on the walls of campus and videotaped his break-in to the Skull and Bones “Tomb.” He left after some PG (Pretty Grisly) events that targeted freshman residents of Branford College. You know, like death threats, hit-and-run incidents—which is pretty disturbing even for New Haven. According to the same article, the freshman who left...
...finale pitted Alfredo E. Montelongo ’11, Julia C. Tartaglia ’11, Phoebe Kuo ’11, and William B. Peck ’12 against each other. (None of them, according to Tartaglia and Peck, had been involved in the controversial "break-in" that we told you about yesterday.) In an e-mail sent over the Eliot open list, Montelongo revealed everything that went down in this electrifying final round...