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...Yard. For example, in 2003 the cameras were used to identify the culprits in a string of projector thefts from the Kennedy School of Government. Moreover, data from surveillance cameras has never been used by the Administrative Board against a student. The University has understandably refused to disclose the exact location of video cameras. Revealing this information would undermine the efficacy of existing security measures, as criminals would simply avoid areas under video surveillance. Still, Harvard students can—and should—expect to be informed about the use of video surveillance on their campus. As these cameras...
...carried on among the MIHNUET volunteers and their audience, Wong says. She noticed that this man was a little more persistent than what she was used to. Her conversation continued until the man had acquired a deep knowledge of her work—“Down to the exact molecules I was studying,” Wong says...
Bernazzani had arrived in New Orleans from Washington four months earlier. He had spent the previous four years helping the FBI set up the Terrorist Threat Integration Center, and when he came to New Orleans, he decided--in a stroke of either brilliance or desperation--to do the exact same thing. "The violence was so ingrained in the youth, you could not arrest your way out of it," he says. But what he could do was try to get everyone--police, FBI agents, prosecutors--to share information. "The missing piece was not intelligence but the integration of intelligence, just like...
...N.O.P.D. uses a higher population estimate for the city and claims that the murder rate is lower. No one really knows the exact population. But whatever the number, the forces at work in New Orleans change daily, so it is hard to predict the future. For example, last month, under threat of a lawsuit by the National Rifle Association, police began redistributing guns that had been confiscated as an emergency measure after Katrina. So far, 47 out of a stockpile of 942 have been returned. FEMA assistance is expected to drop in the next several months, which could also incite...
...school to go to a doughnut shop and was on my way back when I didn't see the red light until it was too late and got rear-ended in my '82 Toyota Starlet hatchback. I went home and told my mom first. I don't remember my exact words. It took her a couple minutes to realize this was not just the most amazing excuse ever for a car accident. I told my dad that same day. He said, "You're my daughter and I love you and I just want you to be happy...