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...three simultaneous hostage dramas began to unfold, onlookers gathered. "It's like watching 24 in slow motion," said Vineet Pandit, 22, who lives near the Oberoi. What they would see at each of these sites was a parade of hundreds of uniformed troops over the course of several hours: the Mumbai police, the Indian army and paramilitary groups including the Rapid Action Force and the National Security Guard's ?lite "Black Cat" commandos, distinctive in their all-black uniforms. It was not always clear who was in charge. On Thursday at the Taj, police officers waited idly in their jeeps...
...seemed like a neat idea when Research in Motion (RIM) announced it in October: the first smartphone with a clickable touchscreen. I even enjoyed the few minutes I spent playing with a prerelease version of the BlackBerry Storm, which goes on sale Nov. 21 for $200 (after the $50 rebate from wireless carrier Verizon...
...that need to be made if we truly want balanced schools?” Mayor E. Denise Simmons said. Committee member Alfred Fantini suggested increasing the variance factor to 15 percent in order to decrease the number of mandatory placements, but some members were reluctant to approve the new motion because they said its efficacy could not be predicted. “I’m frankly torn on this because we don’t have full information on what the impact of what this would be,” said committee member Patty M. Nolan...
...part due to his close relationship with Summers, according to a January 2006 article in Institutional Investor magazine.A month after the article was published, Abernathy and 15 other FAS professors spoke out against Summers, and on Feb. 9, German and comparative literature professor Judith L. Ryan submitted a motion for a vote of no confidence in the University president—the second called for in two years.Summers resigned less than a week later after five years on the job, making him the shortest-tenured Harvard president since the Civil War.A DIFFERENT WORLD Some of Summers’ strongest critics...
...Nolan opposed a motion to extend Fowler-Finn’s contract for this year, though it narrowly passed, 4-3, in the school committee last January...