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...seats of Bell Hall were packed and some of the roughly 70 people who attended stood along the walls or sat on the floor. The audience included students, but also Cambridge residents, a member of the American Civil Liberties Union of Massachusetts, and a Boston police officer, in uniform...

Author: By Maria Shen, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Author Raises Police Controversy | 11/19/2009 | See Source »

...semester ends, we still have $110 million of budget cuts to make, and hot breakfast is less than one percent of that figure. To bring back hot breakfast, something else will have to go, and students need to ask themselves what they are willing to sacrifice. If any member of the Harvard community is concerned about hot breakfast, House life, or college life in general, then the Idea Bank is the most effective way to have your voice heard...

Author: By Andrea R. Flores | Title: Beyond Bacon and Eggs | 11/19/2009 | See Source »

Despite the expensive new weapon, the pirate skiff plowed right through sound waves that should have sent the privateers scurrying in the opposite direction. Ultimately it took gunshots fired by a four-member security team to drive the pirates away after they came within 300 yards of the Maersk Alabama. The lesson: lead still beats loud...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Is There a Sound Defense Against the Somali Pirates? | 11/19/2009 | See Source »

...choice prompted accusations that the E.U. had gone for the lowest common denominator. Van Rompuy was "bland" and Aston "unremarkable," said Daniel Cohn-Bendit, a German Member of the European Parliament who heads the Green group in that body. "E.U. leaders have continued the job of weakening the E.U. institutions," he said. "Europe is sinking...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The E.U.'s New Top Leaders: Bland Leading the Bland | 11/19/2009 | See Source »

Indeed, his shunning of the limelight is probably what landed him the job. Although he is recognized in Belgium for defusing tensions between the country's Flemish and French speakers - a quality that could come in handy with the 27-member E.U. - his low profile appears to have endeared him to his initial sponsors, German Chancellor Angela Merkel and French President Nicolas Sarkozy. The two leaders are thought to have balked at a big name like former British Prime Minister Tony Blair as E.U. President, because they feared he could become a strong rival for the spotlight. Van Rompuy...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The E.U.'s New Top Leaders: Bland Leading the Bland | 11/19/2009 | See Source »

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