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...number of crimes committed on campus dropped for the third year in a row last year, according to annual crime statistics recently released by the Harvard University Police Department (HUPD). The decrease in crime was largely a result of a substantial decrease in the number of burglaries, which dropped 18 percent between 2005 and 2006, the most recent year reported. The total number of crimes declined 13 percent, from 528 to 457, over that time period. In addition, since 2003, the overall crime rate dropped 30 percent, a trend that stands in contrast to most other Ivy league schools?...
...performance. If someone wants to believe you don’t deserve that job, that fame, or that money, you can prove them wrong by being nothing short of impeccable at what you do. Of course, some will still hold onto their perceptions—they are often a result of deeply held confirmation biases—but taking care of your end is all you can really do. Etching out your existence as a successful person is far more critical than worrying about the attitudes of others...
...people will dispute the carnage that took place in the Iraqi town of Haditha on Nov. 19, 2005: Women and children were killed in their homes alongside adult males by U.S. Marines. The Marines originally said that the civilians were killed as a result of a roadside bomb. TIME first brought the incident and its contradictions to light in March 2006, beginning a series of official investigations and contributing to the loud public debate on the deployment of the U.S. military in Iraq. The trouble, however, has been with coming up with a prosecutable case against the Marines involved...
...case of Staff Sgt. Frank Wuterich, who was supervising the squad that killed two dozen civilians that day, Ware recommended that Wuterich be charged with negligent homicide. That charge would allege that the 27-year-old enlisted Marine wrongfully killed civilians as a result of recklessness. Even this lesser charge, noted Ware, would be difficult to prove to a jury given the lack of evidence in the case...
...houses even two months after its release, and "Chak De India," a Punjabi phrase meaning "Go India!" has become a trendy catchphrase across the country. "Everything about the film is different," says well-known film critic Vinayak Chakravorty. "The script, direction, treatment, all stray from the usual formula. The result is a good film, which is what audiences increasingly want...