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...huge Caterpillar D-9 bulldozer rolled along a three-quarter-mile stretch of the main street to clear booby traps. An Israeli engineering-corps officer logged 124 separate explosions set off by the vehicle. In the camp, the explosive charges were even more densely packed, and tunnels had been dug between houses so that Palestinian fighters could move around without exposing themselves on the street. Many noncombatants had fled; Israeli intelligence believes half the camp's residents had left before the troops arrived, and that by the third day of the battle 90% of the residents were gone. Even...
...Holley, were useless unless they were placed directly on the armor of a vehicle. Holley surmises that the bulldozer driver saw the Palestinians and rammed the wall down on top of Tawalbe. A week later--by which time Tawalbe's name was known throughout the Arab world--his family dug out his body and that of another fighter who died with him. The bodies had been so badly mangled by the falling masonry that the burial party could not distinguish one from the other; they were interred together in Jenin's Martyrs' Cemetery. A few days later, posters of Tawalbe...
...fortune in a divorce settlement with his second wife. The reason for both losses was the romantic relationship sparked when Wetlaufer, the editor of the Harvard Business Review, interviewed Welch, the retired head of GE, for a story in her publication. But the saga continues now that journalists have dug into her past. Wetlaufer was supposed to return to HBR as an editor-at-large, but last week she resigned from the journal entirely, saying her presence would be a distraction. This comes just as two articles, one in Vanity Fair and one in New York magazine, have turned...
...Harvard Law Sschool, who is investigating the stock analysts on Wall Street for fraud. Unlike companies that, however foolishly, want to merge in order to grow, the analysts on Wall Street have been consciously deceiving the public for years. Spitzer’s investigation, and the dirt he has dug up on prominent analysts like Jack Grubman of Salomon Smith Barney and Henry Blodget of Merrill Lynch, has finally prodded the rest of the regulatory agencies into action. Both the Securities and Exchange Commission and the National Association of Securities Dealers are currently investigating Wall Street, fearful of losing control...
...Crimson’s march through the Big Green singles’ ranks was accomplished with equal ease. Chu, Riddell, Turner and Choo all won in two sets. Lingman, playing, No. 2 singles, dropped the first set 4-6 to Dartmouth’s Chris Gonyer. Lingman dug down and took the second and third sets 6-3, 6-2 to win the point for Harvard...