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...units of as many as 18 agents, known to locals as "jump-out squads," began stopping individuals, usually African Americans like Mills, at drug-infested street corners in search of guns, crack and heroin. The police would then take a digital photo, even with no evidence of malfeasance, to file in a database that Szczerba says can be accessed "if we see a subsequent violation." The department plans to continue indefinitely what it calls Operation Bold Eagle...
...differences don’t become really apparent until dinnertime, when the streets start filling with (in Britspeak) beautiful young things in flowing academic gowns on the way to formal hall (translation: fancy dinner), where the fellows of the College file out to High Table and give grace in Latin, presumably in gratitude for not having to eat the potato concoction served earlier at regular dinner. My own defining Cambridge moment took place at a private tutorial dinner at Corpus Christi College, when I was asked by the head tutor what I was reading in supervision. When I replied that...
...room, white file boxes are piled up to the ceiling, with a life-size cardboard Veritas shield and a Chinese fan floating amid the files...
...other rooms are taken up almost entirely by a few desks and file boxes that have overflowed from the other room. Last October, Illingworth notified the IRC—which is the umbrella organization for groups including Harvard Model United Nations, the International Review, HPIE, the Model Security Council, Harvard Model Congress and Harvard Model Congress Europe—that they might have to move out of the Yard...
...ones who got away, chief among them Osama bin Laden, Taliban spiritual leader Mullah Mohammed Omar and, according to an Afghan intelligence official, "99% of the hard-core leadership" of the Taliban and al-Qaeda. But if Tirin Kot is any indication, most of the Taliban rank and file are not in hiding. They are back in their hometowns, farming, opening shops in the bazaar or just looking for work. The intelligence official estimates there "could be as many as 10,000, maybe more." Where? "Man, just look around you," says Steve, a member of the U.S. special forces stationed...