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...troubling that—for whatever reason—it took almost a week for the University to receive a community advisory regarding two stabbing-robberies that occurred on Saturday, Feb. 8 and Wednesday, Feb. 12, each within three blocks of the Quad. The question of why this delay occurred is beside the point; miscommunications happen, and there was surely no malice behind this mistake. But bureaucratic bungling cannot get in the way of protecting Harvard students...
...There was some delay in getting information from Cambridge Police,” Catalano said. “We are instituting procedures so that doesn’t occur again...
...Royal Society meeting in May 1952; it would be tougher to refuse him in person. As Pauling was preparing to board a plane in New York, however, the U.S. government seized his passport, citing what they considered his dangerous left-wing political views. While that setback might delay Pauling, Watson and Crick knew it would not stop...
...social and economic consequences will be striking. Careers would potentially go on forever, and there's no particular reason why people should retire. People would delay having children in order to keep their career and mating options open. If you could quite happily have your first child in your 50s or 60s, a lot of people would do that, and population growth would start to fall very rapidly...
...flaw seems to be a sort of even-keeled optimism. He started this film with his eyes wide shut to the fact that he had in hand only about half the budget he required. This meant that he had no room for error, not even for a day's delay in shooting. So, of course, the errors started compounding immediately. It wasn't supposed to rain on the first day of shooting, but it did, turning the location into a quagmire. Jets from a nearby NATO base weren't supposed to come screaming overhead all the time, but they...