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...started working in law enforcement, knowing that globalization was beginning to have an impact on a whole range of issues," he said. "The paradigm was El Salvador. After the war, people decided to use their arms caches to make money in criminal gangs. And then we saw that the right-wing paramilitaries and left-wing guerrillas began working together! Burglary, car-jacking plus kidnapping, car theft and the like ... But the main sources of revenue in Salvador were not car-jacking or drugs. When you got to the Balkans or the Caucasus, however, the main source of revenue in society...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The New Gangsterism | 5/7/2008 | See Source »

...goats to be roasted at the celebration, according to Mark McCabe, director of the Cambridge Animal Commission. While Dunster has placed a slaughtered goat in the Eliot courtyard in years past, this year the Cambridge Animal Commission and Harvard University Police Department (HUPD) investigated the remains because a passerby saw the two goats heads in front of Eliot’s Memorial Drive entrance, according to an e-mail sent out by the Dunster House Committee. “After an initial investigation, we saw no signs of cruelty to animals,” McCabe said, adding that what...

Author: By Charles J. Wells, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Eliot Awakens To Dead Animal | 5/6/2008 | See Source »

...system, which features large regional hospitals, medium-sized clinics, and small health posts composed of a couple nurses throughout the nation. One of her projects was a task to examine medical equipment at these remote health posts.Along with her medical work, she says she frequented many game parks, and saw wild animals on the side of the road including ostriches, warthogs, as well as elephants crossing the road.“[Africa] is the most beautiful place in the world, the most unadulterated and natural place,” Wu says. “Here it’s beautiful...

Author: By Peter F. Zhu, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Students Go Abroad to Different Locales | 5/6/2008 | See Source »

...months after the massacre, soldiers patrolled the streets, flushing out suspected dissidents and crushing small protests against the upcoming constitutional referendum. But in the immediate aftermath of last weekend's storm, troops were almost nowhere to be seen. One foreign NGO worker who was in Rangoon recalls that he saw just one military truck on the streets in the hours after the cyclone abated. The truck drove up to a downed tree blocking the road, paused and then left. The following day, the NGO worker saw a group of about 20 soldiers tackle a downed tree armed with nothing...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Burma Reels as Storm Toll Rises | 5/6/2008 | See Source »

...tough to race in conditions like that, in any of the extremes. Wind is the most extreme condition for rowing. Heavy rain, snow, or intense heat is fine, when it comes to wind that’s the one thing that will keep us off the water, and we saw a lot of that.” In the varsity eight, Radcliffe got off the line early and initially led. The Golden Knights made a move, however, and finished in 6:46.6, one second better than the Black and White at 6:47.6. The Engineers pulled across 15 seconds later...

Author: By Elizabeth A. Joyce, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Knights Take Win In Tough Weather | 5/5/2008 | See Source »

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