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...senior advisor who worked on Arab-Israeli negotiations. “This is a historic opportunity for the city to emerge as a stronger community,” said Cambridge City Manager Robert W. Healy in the press release. The committee will begin meeting in October to discuss its mission and goals, the announcement said, and will look to study police training, instruction, and operations; the racial, class, and interpersonal complexities of policing; and potential lessons from the Gates arrest that may be applicable to Cambridge and other communities. Chuck Wexler, executive director of the Washington D.C.-based Police Executive...
...room in Langdell Library that contains the School’s rare book and art collection bears his name. “Finn Caspersen once said that Harvard Law School challenged him to think, and he in turn became an extraordinary friend and supporter of the school and its mission,” Dean of the Law School Martha Minow said in a statement posted on the Law School’s Web site. Caspersen’s philanthropic activity extended well beyond Cambridge: he also donated to institutions such as the New Jersey prep school he attended, an equestrian...
...European delegation makes the E.U.'s first official visit to Zimbabwe since it imposed sanctions on Mugabe and his lieutenants in 2002. Mugabe welcomed them "with open arms" before the talks began in Harare on Saturday. But E.U. development commissioner Karel De Gucht, who is leading the two-day mission with Swedish development minister Gunilla Carlsson, was careful not to name names before he set off. "There is an urgent need for all parties to fulfill their obligations," he said. "By doing this, the E.U. can once again fully re-engage with Zimbabwe and help the country on its return...
...lost somewhere in the bureaucracy. The same thing happened throughout the government. It's really foolhardy to single out individual agency heads as we tend to do in our culture when really, I think the problem is deeper - the problem is the difficulty of orchestrating a change in mission when government is structured a certain...
...Camp Sullivan several miles off. But this action violated ArmorGroup's contract, which is only for static security - that is, guards at specified posts. (The role of traveling bodyguards for embassy personnel is contracted out to another firm, Xe, the company formerly known as Blackwater.) What's more, the mission left remaining embassy security personnel without any night-vision equipment, or "largely night blind," as the POGO letter...