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...officers grilled Ahmed for days but finally concluded he was making up the tale. If an informant is credible, the agency often dispatches a special countersurveillance unit, nicknamed the snapshot team, which will sit in the embassy, wearing night-vision goggles from dusk to dawn, and peer out windows to spot terrorists casing the building. No snapshot team was dispatched to Nairobi. Instead, the station sent out another warning report: Ahmed is probably fabricating the story, but he could be telling the truth, or he could be approaching the embassy to check its security...
Apart from losing the benefits of diversity, the Brown students said they are worried that uneven racial distribution will lead to additional strain on the school's residential minority peer counselors, who complete extra training on issues of race and class and offer workshops on those areas to first-years of color...
...there are units that have 50 percentstudents of color, the minority peer counselors inthose units will have a lot more to do than thosein units with only 10 percent minorities," Letzlersaid...
Perhaps most controversial is The Nurture Assumption by Judith Rich Harris, who asserts that relationships with peers--not parents--determine how children turn out. No less alarming is "Why Doesn't Anybody Like Me?" by Hara Estroff Marano, who reports that peer rejection puts children at risk for dropping out, teen pregnancy, drugs, criminality and mental-health problems...
...drawn from major Harvard University-affiliated teaching hospitals. We provide 180,000 ambulatory visits per year, with over 60 percent of them student visits. We emphasize preventive medicine as well as treatment. We have at least three intake mechanisms for collecting concerns about communication and quality of care: the Peer Student Advisory Program through the Student Health Advisory Council; the Patient Advocate's Office at 495-7583; and contact by telephone, letter or e-mail to the Director of UHS at 75 Mount Auburn Street, Cambridge, MA 02138, 495-2010 or drose@uhs.harvard.edu. We have a Quality Management Committee that...