Word: eric
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...plan," Najibullah Zazi said in a Brooklyn federal courtroom on Feb. 22, "was to conduct [a] martyrdom operation on subway lines in Manhattan." That scheme, according to U.S. Attorney General Eric Holder, represented "one of the most serious terrorist threats to our nation since Sept. 11, 2001." Zazi, who was arrested last September, pleaded guilty to conspiracy to use weapons of mass destruction, conspiracy to commit murder in a foreign country and providing material support to al-Qaeda. The 25-year-old Afghan-born U.S. permanent resident--he attended high school in New York City--traveled to Pakistan...
Early in the game, Harvard seemed poised to take its third victory of the weekend. Sophomore second baseman Jeff Reynolds hit a home run in the top of the first and junior pitcher Eric Eadington held the Wildcats without a run in his first two innings back from an injury...
Students on the Election Commission would also receive a stipend in order to attract a more diverse group of applicants to the Commission, said UC Vice President Eric N. Hysen ’11. In addition, current UC members or candidates running in the elections will not be allowed to serve on the Commission—a eligibility requirement that would be formalized for the first time...
Google CEO Eric Schmidt backs his words with his wallet. In September, Schmidt announced that Google would buy one small company per month. In a bit less than seven months since, Google has bought - um - seven small companies...
...government make changes at the corporate level? Unfortunately there seems to be such a paralysis in government these days. I think Eric Schlosser's analogy about tobacco is a really important one. We were up against really powerful corporations, and ultimately they had great connections to government. But when we began to learn that nicotine really wasn't good for us, we were eventually able to put laws in practice that could tax and charge the real price for that product. I think as we start to understand these high, unseen costs, hopefully we'll start to put the real...