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...document should remain secret. Open Verdict LEBANON President Emile Lahoud signaled support for an independent investigation into the Feb. 14 assassination of former Prime Minister Rafik Harari as a U.N. report concluded that Beirut's own inquiry was flawed and inconclusive. The U.N.'s report did not name a culprit in the bombing but cited Lebanese security failures and polarizing tensions with Syria as factors in the killing. Putin's Promise RUSSIA President Vladimir Putin extended an olive branch to business leaders shaken by the state's controversial breakup of oil giant Yukos. He backed a proposal to exempt privatizations...
...sports beverage fairly shouts health and vigor, but according to a new report, these drinks can hurt teeth even more than sodas do. Damage to enamel from sports drinks was up to 11 times greater than that caused by colas. The culprit isn't sugar but the whole acidic mix. To limit damage, don't sip; chug it! --By David Bjerklie...
...fourth straight year, Harvard failed to advance past the first round., The culprit this time around: a 3-2, overtime defeat that marked the end of seven Harvard careers—those of seniors Brendan Bernakevitch, Tom Cavanagh, Rob Flynn, Dov Grumet-Morris, Andrew Lederman, Ryan Lannon, and Noah Welch—and which marked, at the same time, the continuation of an ugly tournament streak...
...Yale-style House system is not the “one-size-fits-all” solution it is intended to be. Instead of holding up Harvard’s current House system as the culprit, the Curricular Review Committee and the administration should instead focus on fixing the actual problems and improving both the first-year advising system and first-year social life within the boundaries of the current system...
Viewing suspects individually rather than as a group makes it less likely that a witness will finger a suspect simply because he looks more like the culprit than anyone else in the line. To minimize the chance of such mistakes, police departments in several states, including Illinois, New Jersey, Massachusetts, North Carolina, Virginia and Wisconsin, are testing the sequential method. Most of those departments are also making their lineups "double blind": the officer in charge does not know who the alleged culprit is and thus cannot subconsciously influence the witness. That can pose a problem in small towns, where...