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...months of fighting, the Sri Lankan military offensive hardly differentiated between civilian and Tiger targets. Refugees fleeing the fighting said thousands of innocents were being killed in the army's bombardments. Modern militaries typically halt hostilities when large numbers of civilians are killed. The Sri Lankan army barely paused. Reva Bhalla, director of analysis at Stratfor, a global intelligence firm, says Rajapaksa's "disregard for civilian casualties" was a key to the success of the military operation...
...personal networks rather than OCS resources, adding that information is available online so alumni do not need to call OCS for help. “If we have done our job well, we’ve taught them how to develop opportunities for themselves,” Vacca said. Reva P. Minkoff ’08, a former Crimson staff director, used OCS resources after graduation, but said that she did not “feel like they were particularly helpful.” “They tried, and their heart is in the right place...
...convenience and less of a luxury. Rising fuel costs and the fear of exhausting fuel supplies gave rise to various electric vehicle prototypes in the 1960s and 1970s such as the Vanguard-Sebring CitiCar, which was a boxy, even more miniature version of its miniscule Indian predecessor, the REVA, one of the world's best-selling electric cars. One of the most important changes those cars exhibited was a reliance on fuel cells, which produce electricity from some form of fuel (hydrogen, hydrocarbons and alcohol have all been used) as an alternative to batteries. While this helped increase speeds...
...most electric vehicles have lacked one of the key markers of auto success: good looks. Just take a look at La Jamais Contente, designed by Belgian Camille Jénatzy in 1899, or Billard and Zarpe's space-age oddity, the Elektra King (1961). Even today's models - the REVA, or Zap!'s Xebra - are proof that the best adjective to describe most electric cars remains quirky...
...Reva P. Minkoff ’08 is a government concentrator in Pforzheimer House. She was The Crimson’s staff director...