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Three people were held at gunpoint on the MIT campus on Wednesday night, the campus newspaper reported...
...third time this year, the elected President of a former Soviet republic has been forced out of office by a popular uprising. Rebel militiamen in Dushanbe, capital of Tajikistan, seized President Rakhmon Nabiyev as he drove to the airport and forced him at gunpoint to sign a formal resignation. Nabiyev, the longtime communist boss of Tajikistan, won almost 60% of the vote in a presidential election last November. Fighting broke out between Nabiyev's supporters and his rivals, a coalition of democratic and Islamic groups, and in recent weeks the clashes turned into civil...
...unidentified man robbed a cashier yesterday morning at the Harvard Business School Cooperative Society at gunpoint, Harvard University police officials said yesterday...
Much of the material sold by the Kurds is stolen property. Some is simply hauled away from building sites and dams, and some is taken from Kurds by Kurds at gunpoint. Law and order are in short supply in the region, where militias have seized control of many of the hills and valleys. Widespread corruption and factional rivalry cast a shadow over the Kurds' future...
...between the U.S. and Japan was inevitable, it had probably been inevitable for a long time, perhaps as long ago as July 8, 1853. That was the day when Commodore Matthew Perry sailed his black-hulled steam frigate Susquehanna into Edo Bay (now Tokyo Bay) and "opened" Japan at gunpoint, after more than two centuries of self-imposed isolation, to American merchants and missionaries. Humiliated, the Japanese decided to modernize their feudal regime by imitating the barbarian invaders. They hired French officers to retrain their soldiers and British shipbuilders to create their navy. From the Germans they learned the secrets...