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...Queen’s Head will be a pleasant counterpoint to the orgiastic, fluorescent bear-pit that is the Lamont Café. Hopefully, it will obtain the Café’s popularity while sustaining the grandfatherly allure of the fifth floor’s Farnsworth Room—the last of the great laptop-free zones...
...company offered to have the Blackwater guys ride along with them to get to know the general routes and threats, but Shrek said his team was "way too busy," according to Berman. Blackwater also didn't provide the men with any maps, Berman said, and the few they did obtain came after "begging around" on nearby U.S. military bases. They did have global-positioning systems, said Berman, but lacked the coordinates of their destinations...
...will ultimately support a compromise with Western negotiators. Iranian sources tell Time that Ali Larijani, the country's top nuclear negotiator, wants to resurrect talks to resolve the nuclear impasse with European Union foreign-policy chief Javier Solana. The challenge is to find a formula that enables Iran to obtain enriched uranium for civilian energy production while allaying suspicion that it is diverting the material to a weapons program. The outlines of one such proposal have been given to Time (see accompanying article...
...policy of not allowing undergraduates to host guests of the opposite sex in their rooms may change come September. Currently, BU students cannot use their ID’s to swipe into dorms other than their own after 8 p.m. In order to have visitors, students must obtain a three-day guest pass 24 hours ahead of time. Guests of the opposite sex must be signed in by a co-host of the same sex. Under the new policy proposed by Dean Kenneth Elmore, the process of registering an overnight guest visit will be quicker. A three-day guest pass...
...Gonzales also made clear that subpoenas would not be necessary to obtain testimony from five of Gonzales's aides involved in the firings. The attorney general's abrupt retreat was also reflected in a statement from a Justice Department spokesman: "In hindsight, we should have provided the U.S. attorneys with specific reasons that led to their dismissal that would have helped to avoid the rampant misinformation and wild speculation that currently exists." He added that "we will continue to work with Congress to reach an accommodation on providing additional information...