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...much a curse as a blessing. You have to do something with stuff you've stolen, and if you've stolen a lot of it, your problems multiply. More people know that there's hot money or goods around, so security is compromised; that gives fences the chance to demand a larger cut for laundering cash. Then the authorities offer a bigger than usual reward - in the Securitas case, $3.5 million, enough to turn the head of many villains, or villains' wives. Most dangerously, you have to physically shift the stolen goods - and the Tonbridge robbers...
...their responsibility to be informed. Although Summers’ resignation turned out to be a welcome impetus for student involvement, it should not take a campus-shaking event to rouse most students. When the Harvard Corporation formally begins its search for a new president, for example, students should demand a role in the search process.Harvard students owe it to themselves to take a consistent role in campus politics. The University is here to serve its students, after all, and students have the right to demand to be involved. When students take this initiative, this right can be their reality.Lucy...
...Iraqis wanting Coalition forces to leave. The parties of the dominant Shi'ite alliance are formally committed to a similar position, although in reality they're in no hurry to face the security consequences of a hasty U.S. departure. Still, Sadr's game plan may include championing the demand for the U.S. to go. He has called for joint Shi'ite-Sunni worship at Friday prayers this week, in preparation of a mass national unity march in Baghdad, which would demand U.S. withdrawal...
...vehemence about getting the U.S. out, Sadr may be inclined to hedge his bets. On the one hand he is warning Iraqis that the greatest danger they face is posed by the presence of ?the occupation forces"; on the other hand he appears to be qualifying that demand with the rider, "even if on their own timetable." That may sound like a contradiction. Or it may just be a sign that Sadr has learned better than most of his peers in Iraq's political class that avoiding disaster in Iraq will require, above all, a great degree of flexibility...
...termbill money of your fellow students to fund a private party. If you and your suitemates would like to throw a party inviting only your 100 closest friends, you have the right to do so—on your own dime. As it stands, there is no shortage of demand to obtain grants from the the Undergraduate Council’s (UC) “party fund.” Troublingly, anecdotal reports of widespread abuse indicate that this might not be the best measure of their success. Hosts failing to publicize their parties, restricting their guest lists, and misrepresenting...