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Your mother always told you not to walk home alone late at night. But at Harvard, students often don't have much choice--especially if they want to get home late at night. The University's remedy, the escort service, is completely inadequate in providing secure transportation and is in need of an overhaul...
...escort service, which is run by the Harvard University Police Department (HUPD), has only one car. Because the police often delay sending the car until several telephone requests have been received, the wait for a ride can be as much as 45 minutes or one hour. That wait not only discourages students from using the service--it can also be dangerous...
...Baton Rouge. An elephant costume sent from the National Federation of Republican Women has just arrived. They want a college student to put it on and escort Bush to the podium. Christy Casteel, Bush's Louisiana campaign director, needs to clear the costume with the Secret Service, but there is not enough time to do so before Bush's arrival...
...lover or a country when it gets too messy, too close. Like Tomas, she wears a wry smile for life's ironies -- the smile that knows and discounts all. Both need an outsider, in this summer of 1968, to show them what they are missing, and to escort them to the front lines of political melodrama...
...onetime disciple of Mahatma Gandhi and in later years an anti-mujahedin leftist. Khan died in Pakistan at age 98 and was buried in the Afghan city of Jalalabad. Afghan and Pakistani authorities allowed a funeral procession of some 2,000 vehicles to enter Afghanistan under Soviet military escort for the burial, which was attended by Najibullah. Just as Khan's body was being lowered into the ground, two bombs ripped through a parking area about half a mile away, killing a dozen people and wounding many more...