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...would have allowed construction to begin this fall,” said John DiGiovanni, president of the Harvard Square Business Association and member of the Harvard Square Design Committee. But the design committee who is spearheading the effort is now in the process of rebidding the project. In a letter to the committee members on December 9, 2005, Community Development Project Manager Katherine Watkins said that bids are due in January and that construction is anticipated to begin in the Spring of 2006. “We’re certainly on track in terms that it?...
...bloodiest attacks ever by Palestinian Islamic Jihad (P.I.J.)--which the U.S. soon after designated as a terrorist organization. A few weeks later, according to U.S. court documents, Sami al-Arian, a Palestinian computer-science professor at the University of South Florida (U.S.F.) in Tampa, wrote a letter to an associate in Kuwait bragging that the Beit Lid carnage was "an example of what P.I.J. could do" and soliciting funds for the bombers' families. A year earlier, the records show, al-Arian faxed to Islamic Jihad bosses in England and the Middle East a proposal that he run the group...
...together with students long before that. He talked with the student Senate about this matter on Oct. 25. On Nov. 10, he met with the Student Association Academic Committee (the standing committee focusing on these kinds of issues), which recommended a course of action that was followed: an explanatory letter from Ruback and the use of focus groups to gauge student opinion. And on Nov. 22, he went to another meeting with members of the student Senate. That’s three meetings with student leaders before Nov. 30. Students do indeed “deserve a voice in this...
Although some experts speculate that the letter was drawn up by Iranian intelligence to dupe al-Zarqawi, the CIA and Pentagon insist that the 13-page missive is not a forgery and that it reveals differences between the old al-Qaeda leaders and al-Zarqawi over tactics and ideology. At the same time, the letter also indicates an acknowledgment by al-Zawahiri that the al-Qaeda hierarchy has been reordered. "It wasn't the letter of an overall commander pulling the choke chain of a subordinate," says Bruce Hoffman, a terrorism expert with the Rand Corp. think tank in Washington...
According to a memo by Dean of Admissions William Fitsimmons, “Time Out or Burn Out for the Next Generation,” Harvard has proposed the option of taking year off before beginning college in its letter of admission for 30 years...