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Police officers would not confirm the identity of the two individuals. The man is Caucasian, in his 20s, and has a beard and mustache. As of last night, police were unable to say whether the two are affiliated with Harvard...
...Black Students Association president said yesterday that charges of racial harassment of University security guards by their supervisors "confirm" his concerns about racism in the Harvard University Police Department...
Scientists, meanwhile, were demystifying the universe. Strangely, no one knows for sure who invented the telescope, but by 1609 Galileo Galilei had built one of his own. With it he was able to confirm the heretical speculations of Copernicus, Kepler and Tycho Brahe that the sun, not the earth, was the center of our universe. The specific origins of the microscope are equally obscure. In the 17th century, Robert Hooke used it to describe accurately the anatomy of a flea and the design of a feather; Antonie de Leeuwenhoek discovered a world of wriggling organisms in a drop of water...
...council moved the last date for requestingfilms from the end of final exams to commencement.The film societies must claim, or "yellow tag"movies they wish to show and confirm within 14days to maintain exclusive rights...
...paper, this particular group of turncoats was just one of 17 similar organizations around the country that within hours of the President's speech would confirm their rumored disaffection -- the timing of their crossovers having been quietly coordinated by the Clinton campaign. But these folks were different; they live in Orange County, California, the wealthy citadel of conservative Republicanism that was home to John Wayne, a place, the Duke once joked, where "due process is a bullet...