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...tourists nationwide were left stranded with little option but to leave Nepal on foot. They included 200 Indians, who trudged south over the border to safety. Elsewhere, Maoists stoned the vehicle of a French couple attempting to return to Kathmandu from western Nepal, and the Nepalese army had to escort nine British travelers driving back from Chitwan game park. While embassies hurriedly revised travel advisories, the United Nations warned that it would have to pull out of Nepal entirely if the Maoists continued to extort cash from aid groups, businesses and even schools across the country...
...reluctant to walk anywhere? Despite the rash of recent assaults, walking remains safe even at night: SafetyWalk’s reincarnation as the Harvard University Campus Escort Program means that no one need walk unaccompanied. Walking isn’t physically demanding, either, and we are in the bloom of our youth anyhow. Our hesitancy to walk seems instead to be a side-effect of our late-20th-century upbringing. We come, many of us, from a sidewalk-less, SUV-saturated suburbia that is famously inhospitable to walkers. Acquiring our cars was a rite of passage; our high schools were...
...nervously checks for potential gunmen in any vehicle that draws alongside him. He can afford to call his uncle in Texas on his new cell phone, but when a stranger at a cigarette stand cast an odd glance at him recently, al-Jalili dialed several friends to escort him home. "The roofs of Mosul are covered with new satellite dishes, and the streets are littered with Pepsi cans and banana skins," says al-Jalili, ticking off some of the items that have become widely available since Saddam Hussein's fall. But the change in Iraq has also ushered...
Cohen said she has had trouble remembering the HUCEP hotline number and has instead called HUPD directly to ask for an escort. HUPD then radioed nearby escorts to answer her request...
Twenty-four-hour keycard access to all Harvard residences will not completely solve the problem of sexual assault on our campus. It must be part of a more comprehensive safety plan, which should include the recent additions of the Harvard University Campus Escort Program and 24-hour shuttles, as well as increased lighting and call boxes in Cambridge Common. But now is the time to eliminate these arbitrary, irresponsible UKA restrictions. The past several months have shown us all that we live in a potentially dangerous urban setting. It is the responsibility of House Masters, the FDO and administrators...