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FRANCE Death on His Mind When Richard Durn used a gun to threaten a psychiatrist in 1998, no action was taken. Even though the school monitor had a history of mental illness, his membership in a shooting club was enough to qualify him to own handguns. At the end of a municipal council meeting in the Paris suburb of Nanterre last week, Durn pulled out two 9-mm pistols and calmly shot dead eight members of the council and wounded 19 other people. As he was wrestled to the ground, he shouted "Kill me! Kill me!" The following...
Back from way back: union membership in the private sector has dipped from 35% in the mid-'50s to 9% today. The U.A.W. is also losing some of its traditional members. Last fall Nissan autoworkers in Tennessee voted down union representation nearly 2 to 1. "It's a bit ironic that the mighty U.A.W. failed to gain votes from autoworkers," says David Denholm, president of the Public Service Research Foundation, an antiunion group, "and now it's making a big deal about representing a couple hundred dorm monitors...
...spending on business intelligence and security has swelled to $7 billion annually, from $1.8 billion in 1980, and should double in the next seven years, spurred in part by the Sept. 11 attacks. While it is difficult to quantify spending on competitive intelligence because the industry is so diffuse, membership in the Society of Competitive Intelligence Professionals (SCIP) has risen to nearly 7,000, from 1,550 in 1990, and the overall market for business intelligence--excluding mundane stuff such as security guards, cameras and fences--has been reported to be $2 billion. And just as the attacks of Sept...
Grech and Speakers Director Ernani J. Dearaujo ’03 said HRC is planning to mobilize the club’s membership, numbering about 200, to help the Cambridge-based Romney campaign...
Wendt started the curling club her freshman year, when she began curling at the Canadian Club of Boston in Brookline. In the following three years, Wendt has seen the membership double as curling became more publicized and therefore popularized...