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Azahari Husin's luck finally ran out. After three years on the run in Indonesia, the master bombmaker--who on several occasions slipped away just before police showed up--was killed last week when a U.S.-trained antiterrorism unit raided a house he had rented in the mountain resort town of Batu in East Java. Azahari, 48, responded to officers' calls for surrender by shooting and hurling 11 explosive charges. A four-hour standoff ended when police shot him before he could detonate the explosives vest he was wearing. His companion then set off a bomb that brought down...
...LEGENDARY JERRY" COLLECTION It's long past time to admit that we were wrong about Jerry Lewis and the French were right. In his 10-year run as Dean Martin's goony pal, Lewis was the master of extreme physical and verbal comedy. As the auteur and star of another decade's worth of prime movie farces, from the near wordless The Bellboy to the daft poignancy of The Nutty Professor (in a dual role as both himself and Dean), he bent the medium as smartly as he distorted his own body. This 10-film set deserves a Légion...
...vigil arose out of an overwhelming sense of passion for those affected in last month’s disaster that left over 3 million homeless and led to over 79,000 deaths, said Rabia G. Mir ’07. Mir, who was the main coordinator and master of ceremonies, said she was inspired to get involved because she is a Pakistani citizen. “For me this hit home,” she said. “It hit people that I grew up with and family members and I know I’m not the only...
...rise thanks in part to a revival of the banking and consulting industries, but the number of applicants to Harvard Business School (HBS) has been declining in recent years. According to a report published by Bloomberg.com, a financial news website, the average compensation of June graduates of the HBS Master of Business Administration (MBA) program increased 11 percentage points to $174,580. Increased job hires by firms such as PricewaterhouseCoopers LLP and Goldman Sachs Group Inc. are partially responsible for driving the rise in salaries. Business school class of 2005 hires at Goldman Sachs were awarded average base salaries...
...outs going to most (though not all) of the University’s deans as well as notable alumni involved in University projects, including Yo-Yo Ma ’76, founder of the Silk Road Project, and Frank O. Gehry, who has consulted on Harvard’s master plan for the Allston campus...