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...forces of General Mohammed Farrah Aidid in Mogadishu, the capital of Somalia. The raids, the first of which began shortly before dawn on Saturday, were in retaliation for a series of attacks on June 5, in which 23 U.N. peacekeepers were killed. In his regular Saturday-morning radio broadcast, President Clinton said that the action was "essential to send a clear message to the armed gangs." That message was pounded home shortly after midnight on Sunday when a second air assault fired on an area near Aidid's private compound...
...morning of December 8--the day after the bombing--then University President James Bryant Conant '14 summoned all Harvard students to Sanders Theatre, where he broadcast the famous "day of infamy" speech by President Franklin D. Roosevelt '04 and then pledged all the resources of the University to the war effort...
Many men received their degrees at a special January Commencement ceremony held in Memorial Church, with overflow seating in Memorial Hall, listening to the radio broadcast of the exercises. Remaining members of the Class of 1943 participated in the June 1943 exercises, actually held for the Class...
...director of Afro-American studies at Princeton since 1988, West has nurtured what even its rivals concede is the best program of its kind in the nation. Significantly, the university, where West got his doctorate, is within broadcast range of New York City's WBLS-FM, West's favorite soul-music station. The department includes Pulitzer-prizewinning novelist Toni Morrison and biographer Arnold Rampersad...
What makes the marriage of the two industries so compelling is that each has something the other needs. The TV operators have built extensive networks of coaxial cable with enough information-carrying capacity (or bandwidth) to broadcast hundreds of TV channels simultaneously. The phone companies badly need that cable to replace their narrow copper wires, which can barely carry a single TV station. At the same time, phone companies have sophisticated switching and billing systems that the cable companies would otherwise have to build from scratch...