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When Mahmoud voted in the regional elections in January, she opted for candidates she felt could offer "sustained security, jobs for young people and a better Iraq." Voting went off without violence in Basra (the only incident came when an overenthusiastic Iraqi policeman fired a gun into the air to encourage voters into a polling station). The bloc affiliated with Iraq's Prime Minister, Nouri al-Maliki, benefited from his action against the militias. In Basra, messages of national unity played better than did religious or sectarian appeals. "We have a new breed of politicians who can take Basra into...
There was a whiff of the future in the Taser. When inventor Jack Cover, who died Feb. 7 at 88, first conceived his controversial stun gun, he imagined a world in which danger could be averted without the use of deadly force...
Multiple product redesigns and one "Don't Tase me, bro" incident later, the Taser remains contentious--although Cover never doubted his invention's mission. "I would rather see someone get shot with a Taser gun," he said, "than a real gun...
...innocent Chinese shopkeepers. Tibet's government in exile, led by its spiritual leader, the Dalai Lama, put the number at more than 200, mostly Tibetans. This businessman, like many of his compatriots, passionately insists that the real number is in the thousands. "We are a people living under the gun. They tried to make us celebrate the New Year, but we refused. They jail us if we display pictures of the Dalai Lama. They even force our children to study only in Chinese at school," he tells me. "But we will never forget we are Tibetans and will always have...
...from Leverett House was robbed at gunpoint while walking down Plympton Street at approximately 8:30 p.m. Saturday night, according to the victim. The perpetrator, described by the victim as a young white man wearing a hooded sweatshirt, threatened the student with a “realistic-looking BB gun.” A suspect was arrested later that night by the Cambridge Police Department near Au Bon Pain, according to Steven G. Catalano, the spokesperson for the Harvard University Police Department. The victim, who requested anonymity because the investigation is ongoing, said he was returning to his room...