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...HUPD officer was directed to Gund Hall to investigate a report of a white substance on a desk. The officer reported the substance was plaster from a bag placed on the desk...

Author: By Alex B. Ginsberg, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Police Log | 10/30/2001 | See Source »

...alibi agency. For a membership fee that is usually less than $100, plus $30 to $50 per lie, services like the Alibi Agency, based in Lytham St. Annes, England, will extend fictitious invitations to business conferences. It will receive your calls and patch them through from "the hotel front desk." The agency will even return, say, a necktie "forgotten at the conference." The alibi companies--originally established in Britain but now franchised in the U.S. and Canada--say they're legally bound to keep the secrets from everyone except the authorities, but there is obviously some risk involved. Britain...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Global Briefing: Oct. 29, 2001 | 10/29/2001 | See Source »

Currently about 2,300 students, and only 63 percent of eligible first-years, are running antivirus software. The software is available for free at the HASCS site “antivirus.fas.harvard.edu” or on a CD-rom available at the help desk in the basement of the Science Center...

Author: By Claire A. Pasternack, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Fast-Moving Virus Hits Campus Computers | 10/25/2001 | See Source »

...responsibilities. There are no textbooks or backpacks on the floor; there is no trash waiting to be taken out. Pink tulle material decorates the door handle. Songs from Disney’s “Beauty and the Beast” float from a laptop, which rests on a desk wrapped entirely in pink crepe paper. Colored Christmas tree lights adorned with sparkly pieces of candy line the molding and the drawers. Colorful flower pots sit in the corner, next to a purple parasol. The floor lamp is ornamented with silver chiffon butterfly wings. Printed patterns of pink...

Author: By B. M. Adler, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Pretty in Pink | 10/25/2001 | See Source »

...terrorism is the first war you can access from your desk. Whenever a civilian - that is, a non-news person - comes into my office, they always remark on the television next to my desk. But everyone I know in the media business has a TV in his or her office - so it's easy to forget that this is an anomaly for most Americans. They can't watch CNN during the day even if they want...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The First Internet War | 10/25/2001 | See Source »

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