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...University is facing a both a space and budget crunch. It is also in the early stages of planning a new academic campus across the river in Allston, where the bulk of Harvard’s sporting facilities reside...
With up to 12 gyms looking to buy exercise equipment, the council and the Houses should pool their resources to buy new machines in bulk and take advantage of manufacturers’ discounts. Some houses have initiated this process—using the MAC’s buying power to coordinate their purchasing and help stretch their limited funding...
Blanket immunity would also unfairly protect manufacturers who don’t meet safety criteria in the production of firearms, as well as dealers who let convicted felons purchase guns, knowingly allow accomplices to buy guns for criminals or fail to investigate bulk purchases. Immunity removes incentives for gun manufacturers and dealers to do business responsibly, and it therefore compromises the safety of American citizens. The gun industry—indeed any industry selling potentially dangerous products—has an extra responsibility to monitor its sales. The legislation now under consideration in the Senate strips gun dealers and manufacturers...
...Iraq. Last month an Illinois Guardsman died in an ambush in Afghanistan; so far, at least eight members of the reserves and the National Guard have died in Operation Iraqi Freedom. And now that the fighting is over, the work is just beginning for reservists, who will provide the bulk of the military manpower for postwar reconstruction - bridge building, restoring utilities, decontamination - and peacekeeping. Deployment may last as long as two years. Some reservists in such sought-after specialties as military police have shipped out two or three times over the past few years...
...Colonel Hodges constantly reminded his staff that the key to success was flexibility. After the bulk of the fighting was over he said, "I knew from Day 1 that there would be changes, but I may not have been prepared for the speed, number and breadth of them. The Commanding General was always telling me to keep my forces postured for any change that might occur." Hodges says his driving goal had been to always have some combat power not fully committed, kept available for anything the Commanding General asked. "It was my duty to give him flexibility," he says...