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...premium on freshness and taste, neither of which McDonald's is renowned for. It hasn't come up with a new blockbuster product since Chicken McNuggets in 1983, and its aging slogan, We Love to See You Smile, hasn't made many people happy on either side of the counter in quite a while...
...have ties to the regional extremist group Jemaah Islamiah (JI), an affiliate of al-Qaeda, were a reminder that the scope and reach of terror remain formidable and potentially lethal. Malaysia and the Philippines have taken action against militants too. Teamwork, it would seem, is the only way to counter such threats. Indonesia, accused by nations around the region of harboring terrorists and under pressure from the U.S. for not fighting its share of the battle, looks increasingly like the odd nation...
Within hours of the Tiananmen massacre on June 4, 1989, the Beijing government launched the largest manhunt in the history of the People's Republic. Citizens were called on to assist the army and police in rounding up the 21 "masterminds" of the so-called "counter-revolutionary upheaval," and "Most Wanted" posters were splashed on street corners. Authorities boasted that the criminals would find nowhere to hide. At first, the pursuit of the student leaders seemed a surreal exercise in totalitarian theater, a face-saving exercise by the party elders who had ordered troops to crush the democracy movement...
...Allen Counter, who is director of the Harvard Foundation, says the College found one space on Plympton Street that the Harvard Foundation could rent, but he isn’t happy about the prospect...
...student officers of the Harvard Foundation and the student interns all prefer to have an office that is readily accessible to students in Harvard Yard,” Counter says...