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...wrist. Officers arrested Xuefeng Sue, age 34, of Boston and issued a trespass warning for all Harvard property.7:55 p.m.: Officers reported to Quincy House A in response to an individual wielding a knife and issuing threats. The man, Ronald Vick of Brighton. was placed under arrest when caught in Peabody Terrace, and was charged with four counts of assault with a dangerous weapon and breaking and entering with intent to commit a felony. He was issued a trespass warning for all Harvard property.May 9:7:28 a.m.: HUPD dispatched officers to the Harvard Medical School’s garage...
Nearby Lebanese townspeople are cheering the army on. Some took up arms when the clashes began last week and the army was caught by surprise by Fatah al-Islam attacks. Today, some armed locals took up positions in the hills and in the nearby villages, on the lookout for Fatah al-Islam supporters who might try to attack the army's rear position. "We want the army to go in and finish them off," says Faisal Obeid, 35, a civilian in Hamra who joined the fighting in support of the army two weeks ago. "We are willing to go into...
...unprecedented-several senior officials have been executed for corruption in recent years including a deputy minister in 2000-it was still a shocking illustration of how seriously Beijing took his crimes. While Beijing has cracked down on official corruption over the past 18 months, with several other senior officials caught up in the dragnet, all of those arrested so far have received prison terms or still await sentencing. Hao Heping, another former official at the Food and Drug Administration, only received 15 years in prison for bribery in November last year...
...result is not just the oil lobbyist caught editing science out of climate reports, or the energy lobbyist convicted in the Abramoff scandal. It's the scandal-free corporate welfare, tax breaks and other Big Government goodies for industry. Baroody is a family man, a policy wonk whose father founded a think tank. But he's been working the Washington henhouse since 1970, and he has fought to shield manufacturers from claims and fines. Giving a NAM lobbyist power over consumer safety would have been like giving a child power over bedtime. It's only a problem if you expect...
...Predictably, government-by-lobbyist has produced some scandals. Philip Cooney, an oil lobbyist who worked in the White House, got caught editing the science out of global warming reports; he's now back at ExxonMobil. Steven Griles, an energy lobbyist who became deputy interior secretary, was a one-man extraction-industry conflict-of-interest machine at Interior; the inspector general described his tenure as an "ethical quagmire," and he's now awaiting sentencing in the Jack Abramoff lobbying scandal...