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Besides education initiatives, this center could also overhaul the current emergency response system for students sick from alcohol consumption by securing an Emergency Medical Technician (EMT) for UHS. Currently Harvard University Police Department officers escort students who abuse alcohol on campus and need to be taken to UHS. This process not only risks the health of sick students by delaying actual medical response, but since police officers are universal symbols of discipline, it also sends the unintentional message that discipline comes before protecting the health of sick students. In lieu of the current policy, the University should mandate a professional...
Bruce Springsteen rubbed some men in blue raw at his tour-closing concerts at New York City's Shea Stadium. It was when he performed American Skin (41 Shots), his song about the 1999 killing of West African immigrant Amadou Diallo by four police officers. The N.Y.P.D. yanked his escort for the next few nights, claiming it had been, after all, only a courtesy. Springsteen didn't sing Skin in his next two outings, and--presto!--his police detail was restored. Did the champion of the workingman back down? Maybe he just appreciated anew the lyrics of his song Thunder...
...Japanese swordsman in the Tang Emperor's court, is assigned to capture and kill "Butcher" Li (Jiang Wen), a once-respected army officer accused of treason because he refused to kill women and children in a raid. Lai Xi and Li make an uneasy truce long enough to escort a general's daughter (Vicky Zhao Wei) and a Buddhist monk to safety. Can they escape the pursuit of evil Master An (Wang Xueqi), the preening aesthete and superslick fighter who stands in their path...
...hereafter as if it were waiting, patiently, urgently, in the next room, as if it were comforting--especially for a man who had wrestled his demons to a draw and learned to walk the line--to think of death not as a psycho killer but as a kindly escort. In September When It Comes, a duet recorded this year with his daughter Rosanne, Cash speak-sings this poignant prophecy: "They will fly me, like an angel,/To a place where I can rest/When this begins, I'll let you know,/September when it comes...
EXECUTED. PAUL HILL, 49, who in 1994 serenely gunned down a doctor who performed abortions and his volunteer escort in Pensacola, Fla.; by lethal injection; at Florida State Prison, in Starke, Fla. The unrepentant former Christian minister, the first killer of an abortion provider to be executed in the U.S., maintained until his death that abortion opponents should "do what you have to to stop...