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...precious time, the coxswain switched off the radio and made up his mind to head for shore. Everyone survived, and the Coast Guard crew received gold lifesaving medals. "There's no place to hide in the Coast Guard," says Rear Admiral Robert Duncan, commander of the Eighth Coast Guard District, which includes the Gulf Coast states. "So we end up with a culture that is not averse to taking measured risk...
...Diego's excesses have attracted attention, but the city is hardly alone. The California Public Employees' Retirement System, better known as CalPERS, handed out a pension check last year for $272,200 to a retired university professor. A former water-district general manager collected $206,300. CalPERS, by the way, invests in vulture funds formed by Wilbur Ross, the New York billionaire who specializes in buying bankrupt companies, slashing costs and then selling the firms for an oversize profit. Among the costs pared: pensions. In short, a public-employee pension fund makes money from the killing of private pensions...
...Business School (HBS) student Tarnas Katona and Kennedy School of Government student Kanwar I. Singh were allegedly among the boisterous crowd of students refusing to leave the recently shut-down party and yelling at police officers. But no formal charges have yet been lodged against Katona, according to Middlesex District Attorney spokeswoman Emily LaGrassa, because there was not sufficient information in the police report to support the charges. This, Katona said, proves that his arrest was unjustified. “The judge says ‘you’re free to go’—his exact...
...comfortable with,” he said. “A rapid call to the HUPD is the best thing that can be done. We take calls of suspicious people in resident halls very seriously and we rapidly respond to them.” The Middlesex District Attorney’s Office did not know yesterday whether Vick was still in jail or whether he was out on bail. —Staff writer Reed B. Rayman can be reached at rrayman@fas.harvard.edu...
...soldiers stationed in Mosul told TIME that District Election Officers had moved polling sites that day, confusing voters. In one case, they claimed, an official had moved a polling site to his office at another school two miles from the old site without informing anyone. There were also reports of election officials separating the vote tally sheets from the ballot boxes, allowing them to be marked separately - and possibly fraudulently...