Word: escorting
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...students who have attempted to utilize HUPD for a ride complain that because of HUPD’s other obligations, cruiser service is woefully sluggish, leaving them waiting for 45 minutes on occasion. And by three in the morning, the neon-vested forces of the new Harvard University Campus Escort Program have long ceased traversing Garden Street...
...still unclear whether the four Blackwater employees found themselves in Fallujah inadvertently or were on a mission gone awry. Even by Pentagon standards, military officials were fuzzy about the exact nature of the Blackwater mission; several officers privately disputed the idea that the team was escorting a food convoy. Another officer would say only the detail was escorting a shipment of "goods." Several sources familiar with Blackwater operations told TIME that the company has in some cases abbreviated training even for crucial missions in war zones. A former private military operator with knowledge of Blackwater's operational tactics says...
...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...
...become a dictator," says Fareed Yasseen, an Iraqi-American consultant who serves as Pachachi's senior aide. And while U.S. officials selected him for the council, some Iraqis draw a distinction with another Washington favorite, Ahmad Chalabi. Chalabi returned to Iraq last year with a U.S. special-forces escort; Pachachi cold-shouldered the American military and flew into Baghdad alone a month after the city fell...