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That was the end of a debacle that had begun 23 hours earlier, when Palestinian terrorists from the Black September organization burst into the dorm housing the Israeli delegation at the 1972 Olympics and took 11 of its members hostage. It was also the start of a much longer, more complicated chapter in the saga: Israel's methodical extraction of revenge. About the events in Munich on Sept. 5, 1972, there is considerable clarity. The story of the reprisal missions, on the other hand, has been befogged by mystery. The notion persists that the Israelis drew up a list...
...protect data, Voltage uses an identity-based encryption developed by one of Appenzeller's Stanford professors, Dan Boneh. The prof also taught Rishi Kacker and Matt Pauker, both of whom helped found Voltage--stop us if you've heard this one--while working out of their Stanford dorm rooms...
...Brigid L. Kerrigan ’91 hung the Confederate banner from her Peabody Terrace window. Two years later, she unfurled the flag again from her Kirkland House dorm, prompting a 70-person silent protest, according to The Crimson...
...typical first-year thing: I did a reasonably good job of making friends, I joined crew, I hung out with the people in my dorm, and I worked as hard as I could at academics. But I felt that, to a certain degree, I didn’t belong anywhere. It was a feeling I got from a lot of my friends, too, the ones who didn’t identify strongly with a certain culture, religion, or activity. I wanted to get to know everyone, not just the people in certain pre-set categories...
...thankful that going home for Thanksgiving is special because it’s not the norm to leave campus on the weekends (Think “commuter-school”). It’s nice to go to a college where I’ve started to call my dorm “home”, where my housemates have become a second family, and where I feel disheartened even leaving for a few days...