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Well, almost. Harvard Athletics and Qdoba Mexican Grill are awarding a taco bar to the House with the most students in attendance at this weekend’s Harvard sporting events. Sure,it’s not Chipotle, but anything's better than HUDS. Find out more after the jump?...
...clandestine groups have promised to hunt down and murder criminals to help restore order. As in the killing of the alleged thief by Flores, such groups have been cheered on in public forums. "My sincerest congratulations to these brave men with their courage and determination," wrote a reader of Mexican newspaper Milenio. "God help them with their noble cause." (See pictures of Mexico's drug wars...
Graphic photos of the alleged thief's corpse were splashed over the front pages of Mexican tabloids beneath headlines such as "Dead Rat" and "Military Justice." The confessed shooter, retired general Alejandro Flores, was widely hailed as a hero for firing at the 30-year-old man who had tried to force his way into the military man's Mexico City home. "Of course he did the right thing," wrote Felipe Alcocer in one on-line forum on the incident. "I wish everyone would act in the same way and get rid of this anti-social scum...
...demonstrations demanding that the army leave Mexico's streets have erupted in towns and cities along Mexico's border with Texas and down the coast of the Gulf of Mexico. Protesters have blocked main avenues, slowed traffic across international bridges into the U.S. and clashed with federal police. The Mexican authorities blame this entire movement on the Gulf drug cartel and its bloody band of enforcers known as the Zetas. The demonstrators, says the government, are simply a rent-a-mob being deployed in desperation against a military-led crackdown on the cartels. (See pictures of Mexico's drug wars...
...Former Mexican health minister Julio Frenk, who stepped into his role as the new dean of the Harvard School of Public Health last month, wrote in a letter to faculty and staff last week that the school would respond to the new uncertainty by leasing properties nearby, most notably an empty elementary school on Smith Street—39,000 square feet of space located a few blocks from the school’s central site in Longwood...