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...many suicide bombings as they did all last year. An Israeli law-enforcement officer attributes the drop to "Shin Bet, the fence and God"--but not to any change of heart by the extremists. In fact, renegades from Hamas, by far the largest and most organized Palestinian group, appear intent on restarting suicide missions, motivated partly by the refusal of the international community and Israel to deal with elected Hamas officials. On the eve of the Jewish holiday Passover, April 2, a rebel Hamas cell drove a truck loaded with 220 lbs. of explosives into the center of Tel Aviv...
...surveillance cameras is ludicrous. An open campus is essential to university life. Installing numerous security devices would adulterate that atmosphere. Moreover, it would give a false sense of security and would not have prevented this tragedy. A very determined, very deranged young man perpetrated these atrocities. He was intent on mayhem, and he succeeded. It was the courage of many individuals that prevented the mayhem from being far worse. Hindsight is 20/20. Rather than cast aspersions on an exemplary institution, let's move forward in healing...
...though, Harvard seems intent on protecting its password-accessible content from publication...
Amid the mayhem of last weekend’s Undergraduate Council (UC) meeting and the Mather House Committee’s (HoCo) subsequent announcement of its intent to secede from the UC, an important substantive question was lost in the frenzy: whether the UC should fund House Committee (HoCo) events beyond the upfront grant they give HoCos each semester. We see no compelling reason why HoCos should not be permitted to apply for further funding from the grants fund just like any other student group...
...just as intent on winning these games as Saturday and Sunday because these games help us prepare for the weekend,” Kidder said...