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...night’s shooting, but several glitches may have hampered its effectiveness, prompting undergraduate complaints and administrative consideration of possible system modifications yesterday. At approximately 5:45 pm on Monday, Message Me subscribers received the first of several text messages notifying them of the incident “near Kirkland House on Mt Auburn St.” A later message informed them that Harvard University Police had deemed much of the campus, with the exception of Kirkland and Eliot Houses, safe enough for them to “resume normal activity.” Message Me was last...
...mail to his House residents beat the university’s “emergency” text message by almost 15 minutes. Most tellingly, when the first text message finally arrived at 5:45 p.m., it was both factually inaccurate and truncated: “Report of shooting near Kirkland House on Mt Auburn St. Police ask people to remain indoors and avoi [sic].” In the era of Twitter, it seems little to ask that those in charge of emergency SMS should know the number of characters that fit in one message. For the record...
More recently, Afghan security forces found a cache of Iranian-made explosives near the Bakhshabad Dam in Farah province, a $2.2 million coalition-sponsored project set to boost power and water supply in the area. Gen. Malham Pohanyar, chief of the West Region border police, says other comparable findings abound. He says his men gave chase last week to arms smugglers who detonated their load as they fled in the dark.However, he concedes there is lack of hard proof implicating the Tehran regime...
...capture by the Sri Lankan army. He had been fighting a war for an independent homeland, or eelam, for the island's Tamil minority since 1983, and the army had pursued him throughout the jungles of the north and east for decades. In 2002, during a press conference near the beginning of a four-year cease-fire, Prabhakaran revealed that he had asked his aides to kill him if capture was near and he was unable to kill himself...
...exclude Suu Kyi from participating. Other rules specify that top posts must be reserved for members of the military, thereby ensuring the junta's longevity. Nevertheless, many in Burma had hoped that Suu Kyi, in whatever limited form, might be able to influence the political process. It will be near impossible for her to do so from prison...