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...walking to and from class on roads and sidewalks covered in ice. Harvard’s Facilities Maintenance Organization (FMO) was prepared for the dangers the weather would bring—stockpiling salt, sand, and ice-melt, as well as activating all on-hand personnel and hiring emergency contract workers from outside its ranks. According to Yard Operations Associate Director of Residential Operations Zachary M. Gingo ’98, 65 people worked for a total of 30 hours to make the walkways navigable after the remnants of a stormy Valentine’s Day solidified. “After...
First of all, the seminar’s secrecy is ultimately self-defeating—to participate in the class, students are required to adhere to a safe space confidentiality contract, and its location is undisclosed. If FemSex wants to bill itself as “the most honest place on campus,” then it should put all of the issues on the table, and be open to participants of all genders. After all, a truly empowered woman can discuss these issues without all of the hoopla...
INDICTED. Childhood pals Brent Wilkes, 52, a defense contractor, and Kyle (Dusty) Foggo, 52, former executive director of the CIA; on fraud and other charges surrounding a contract for bottled water for CIA officers in Iraq; in connection with the corruption probe that sent ex-Congressman Randy Cunningham to prison last year; in San Diego. Wilkes was separately charged with conspiring to bribe Cunningham to win deals...
...says, not a fund raiser--harks back to a close personal relationship. But Washington insiders, looking for an explanation about why a Clinton supporter might have risked wandering, point to the Dozoretzes' company, ValueOptions, which oversaw $300 million in New Mexico mental-health services last year under a state contract approved in 2005. Dozoretz insists that's immaterial: "We're a leading provider of mental services to governments all over the country; when the bid came out for New Mexico...
...manager Marwan El Nashar as “family values, heritage pride and history, as well as interaction in society.”COMIC COLONIALISM?But like the Teshkeel Media Group, AK Comics seeks also to transcend the cultural gap between (Middle) East and West, recently signing a distribution contract with a major American publisher.The AUCtoday article fails to question the sagacity of using traditionally American images to formulate role models and cultural touchstones for Arab youths.Indeed, many of the images depicted on the covers of AK Comics’ series share compositional similarities to the stock images of Marvel...