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...department also is responsible for bringing extra help to Cambridge in the case of a large-scale fire or emergency??a 10-alarm fire, for example, requires aid from all of Cambridge’s surrounding cities. Dispatchers then contact emergency workers from nearby towns to move in and help. This system is dubbed “mutual aid.” Each time another city’s personnel comes in to help, workers from cities even further afield must move in to take their position...
When the lights first dimmed, the aptly-titled dance “Emergency?? (choreographed by Jetta G. Martin ’05) hit the stage. Against a screen backdrop that urgently reflected a stark red light, maroon-sleeved dancers crowded the stage in movements that were alternately well-coordinate and disjointed. Whether or not the assumption and loss of uniformity was deliberate, the entire play proceeded and matched seamlessly the oblong and stacatta-driven notes of the soundtrack composition (written impressively by Patrick J. Bradley ’05). Although the dancers’ lack of coordination...
...fact, “Emergency??’s electronica was interrupted by a dissonant and jarring interlude. Militant beats reminiscent of “The Nutcracker”’s battle scene soundtrack flowed uneasily back and forth from the crash of the piece’s dominant electronica, which sounded more like high-speed traffic...
Prime Minister Allawi’s recent declaration of a state of emergency??and martial law—adds further doubt to the state of the occupation. Iraq is in shambles; unless security is restored soon—and we hope it is—the nation may cease to exist as a modern state. No doubt many of the measures in Allawi’s declaration were needed to ensure the short-term safety of Iraqi civilians, but we wonder what this forebodes for a democracy that as yet exists only in the minds of American geopolitical...
...some emergency,” Dean of the Faculty William C. Kirby evidently confuses low percentages of women hired or tenured with evidence of discrimination (News, “FAS Diversity Drives Debate,” Oct. 20). The latter, not the former, is an “emergency?? necessitating the kind of affirmative action program Kirby touts...