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...policy, it presumed that the benefits to advising from pre-assignment would consist of improved freshman access to the House tutor system—a wrong-headed argument if ever there was one. Critics rightly argued that House advisors are stretched thin across this campus and that the added load would fill the tutor system to bursting. But the 2004 report missed the point. By pre-assigning freshmen to Houses, Harvard would at last begin to take advantage of its existing geographic community building possibilities, in a way that would both improve the freshmen advising and residential experience and foster...

Author: By Adam Goldenberg | Title: The Prefect Storm | 3/10/2006 | See Source »

...family was threatened and Dixon forced to cooperate. After midnight, the gang took Dixon to a depot in nearby Tonbridge, run by Securitas, a company that handles about 40% of the cash deposits made in the U.K. Once inside, the gang tied up 14 staff members and started to load the loot into a white truck. It's a racing certainty they didn't know what they'd got. With big robberies, that's more common than you might suppose. In a number of the most famous British heists - notably the Brinks Mat bullion raid at Heathrow airport...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Villainy of the Old School | 2/28/2006 | See Source »

...also participated in four relays. “Brendan Mitchell was just outstanding this weekend,” junior Pat Morrissey said. “He was definitely the workhorse for us—swimming in three finals and 4 relays. He really shouldered a lot of the load for us and helped us out a lot.” Although the Crimson had far fewer swimmers than did many of the other teams there, it refused to make excuses. “Since we didn’t have a full team, there was a lot more responsibility...

Author: By Julie R.S. Fogarty, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Smaller Squad Places Fifth | 2/27/2006 | See Source »

...family was threatened and Dixon forced to cooperate. After midnight, the gang took Dixon to a depot in nearby Tonbridge, run by Securitas, a company that handles about 40% of the cash deposits made in Britain. Once inside, the gang tied up 14 staff members and started to load the loot into a white truck...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Villainy of the Old School | 2/26/2006 | See Source »

...average, overseas containers will pass through 17 intermediate points before they arrive at their final U.S. destination, and often their contents come from several locations before they are even loaded into the box. Nearly 40% of all containers shipped to the U.S. are the maritime-transportation equivalent of the back of a UPS van. Intermediaries known as consolidators gather together goods or packages from a variety of customers or even other intermediaries and load them all into the container. They know only what their customers tell them about what they are shipping...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Book Excerpt: Why America Is Still An Easy Target | 2/22/2006 | See Source »

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