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...Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court dismissed a lawsuit filed by The Crimson against Harvard. The lawsuit contended that because the Harvard University Police Department (HUPD) is endowed with “special state police powers”—such as the ability to make arrests and obtain search warrants—it should provide access to the same reports released by public police forces...
Britain's intelligence services have identified 1,600 potential terrorists in the U.K., but officials can keep constant tabs on only a few at a time. Terrorists no longer need to travel to Afghanistan, Pakistan or Iraq to learn their trade; they can just as easily obtain bomb blueprints and network with like-minded jihadists over the Internet. Information and expertise now flow in all directions. Car bombs, for instance, have become commonplace in Iraq, but not all Iraqi insurgent tactics originated there. "If anything," says Charles Shoebridge, a security analyst and former counterterrorism officer in the British army...
...takes home allows her to send three of her 12 children to school, while her husband John seeks out odd domestic jobs in the middle-class estates within walking distance of their home. Thanks to her enterprising spirit and a community-savings scheme, she can obtain small loans to keep her business going or cover the costs of a family emergency. But Margaret knows no matter how hard she works, her family members will probably live out their lives in a one-room tin shack with no electricity, water or sewage. They are trapped in Kibera, a squalid slum where...
...opposition senses an opportunity too. Mrs. Kirchner's comparatively lower popularity has led them to feel optimistic about forcing a second round of voting if she cannot obtain the necessary percentage to win outright in a first round in the October 28 polls. "It is clear Cristina is the weaker candidate," said Senator Gerardo Morales, the vice-presidential candidate on Lavagna's ticket...
...that it is taking place at all means that more damaging revelations could lie ahead. Among those agitating to know more is Democratic senator John Kerry, who recently wrote to Attorney General Alberto Gonzales citing a 2002 State Department memorandum on "persistent allegations that BAE Systems pays bribes to obtain business." The State memorandum concluded that "this volume of allegations about one company would have triggered a Department of Justice criminal division investigation long ago." Kerry's letter, which asks for information on how DoJ is handling the BAE matter, also refers to a high-ranking DoJ official who said...