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Location is the most important part of the job at the command center, Wornum says, because without a location, no help can be dispatched...
...addition, dispatchers have access to a list of all Harvard students with disabilities, Wornum said. If there is a fire or other emergency at the University, the Harvard University Police Department may be called first, but the command center is also contacted. Dispatchers need to know which rooms may contain a disabled student so they can direct help there first...
...Erian's latest tussle occurred this year, when authorities sent him back to prison for six months for organizing antigovernment street protests. He was released only three weeks before the first round of parliamentary voting. Though freed too late to run for parliament, el-Erian took command of the party's political wing and set up an operations center to coordinate activists, respond to reports of voter intimidation and conduct exit polls. Interviewed by TIME after the final results, el-Erian downplayed fears that the Brotherhood would focus on such issues as banning alcohol and veiling women according to Islamic...
...EXCELLENCY: GEORGE WASHINGTON JOSEPH J. ELLIS He didn't actually have wooden teeth, and in his first military command--at age 22--he presided over a bloody disaster that helped kick off the French and Indian War. Handsome, burly, charismatic and enigmatic, Washington turns out to be nothing like the frozen, overfamiliar face on the dollar bill, and his life, which was in many ways a charmed one, makes for an engrossing and revelatory read...
...four years since bin Laden disappeared during the siege of Tora Bora, intelligence agencies around the world have struggled to glean information about the whereabouts and inner workings of al-Qaeda's high command. U.S. intelligence on al-Zarqawi, bin Laden and his deputy, Ayman al-Zawahiri, is not strong. But counterterrorism and intelligence officials tell TIME they believe al-Zarqawi has expanded his reach outside Iraq's borders to the extent that he has become al-Qaeda's most dangerous operative. The U.S. believes al-Zarqawi has contacted about two dozen other terrorist groups in more than 30 countries...