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...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...
...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...
...believes...that it’s much easier to improve something if you have data to tell you what you’re achieving (or not),” Knowles wrote in an e-mailed statement. “So this is a way to obtain some evidence about the consequence of all that we try to do...to improve the way that our students present arguments and positions in writing...
Caf 150 has access to local beef from Bassian Farms in San Jose, Calif., but the restaurant can't obtain everything it needs from the valley. Take salt. "There are salt flats a quarter-mile that way," said Keller, pointing to the horizon, "but they're for industrial purposes." So he buys salt "off the truck," from a food-service deliverer...