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...across the river at Harvard Business School, Faust drew comparisons with a different kind of presidential contender...
...people dead and more than 340,000 forced to flee their homes, this year's flooding is the worst in recent memory-and blame is falling on the city government for failing to make infrastructure fixes that might have prevented the devastation. Waterways like central Jakarta's Ciliwung River routinely overflow in heavy rains, despite government pledges to clean them up. Work on a floodwater canal in East Jakarta has dragged as residents complain about poor land compensation. And unchecked development is eroding green areas critical to absorbing rainfall: a former catchment area in Kemang, South Jakarta, now an expat...
Charles Studen, a Harvard planning official, assured the Cambridge Planning Commission that despite the slew of construction across the river in Allston, “Cambridge remains the heart of the University...
...someone who has zipped over Afghan mountains and along Iraqi river valleys in U.S. military choppers - usually clutching my stomach to avoid losing my MRE - I know there are no helicopter pilots better than those trained by the U.S. military. Nor are there any better flying machines (the White House's recent ordering of a fleet of Anglo-Italian helicopters for the President's use notwithstanding...
...northern Baghdad, making their way to a golden-domed shrine for holiday celebrations. Suddenly the crowd grew panicky - someone had said there was a suicide bomber among them. A moment later, the line on the bridge erupted into a stampede. Barriers broke, and people plunged into the Tigris River below. Other walls on the bridge held, trapping some under a suffocating crush of people. Mohammed arrived on the scene in time to see scores of dead bodies - almost 1,000 people were killed in the incident, and as many were injured. He quickly began ferrying victims from the bridge...