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...Juárez's murder rate dropped from a horrific 10 per day in the final months of 2008 to just five in March. The gangs are lying low for now, and the city's 1.5 million people are venturing back out to the streets. Waiters at the ornate Kentucky Club are thrilled to see visitors walk in again for the bar's famous Rio Grande margaritas. (See pictures of the fence between the United States and Mexico...
...level of violence is still shocking. Close to the Kentucky Club, heavily armed police escort an ambulance ferrying a gang member with bullet wounds to a hospital and sit guard in case his rivals try to come in and finish him off. "You watch what's happening, and you burst into tears," says Vargas. "Your spirit lives in the gutter." Severed heads are often left on roadsides and at police stations; the bodies they were once attached to are sometimes hung from bridges and overpasses. A mass grave holding nine corpses was recently discovered outside the city, and in November...
Rebecca J. Howe ’11, the Harvard Environmental Action Committee’s Earth Day Co-Chair, said that the festivities are completely student-run and that numerous Harvard organizations such as the Outing Club, Geological Society, the Vegetarian Society, Green Labs, and Sustainable Allston are also sponsoring the events...
...recent movement for a Harvard great books program started at a “spontaneous” gathering of about a dozen professors from a variety of disciplines at the Faculty Club in fall 2007, according to Armitage. There was a sense of excitement at that first meeting, he said, since all the professors there expressed commitment to teaching in a program dedicated to foundational texts...
Members of the Harvard Republican Club staged a small protest in front of the Science Center yesterday to push for the University to change its policies on students in the Reserve Officers’ Training Corps, who currently do not get course credit for ROTC classes taken at MIT. [SEE CORRECTION BELOW...