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Every two years since 1996--when 19 U.S. servicemen were killed and hundreds injured in the Khobar Towers bombing in Saudi Arabia, and the Department of Defense concluded it needed to acquire better protection for the troops--the Pentagon has invited hundreds of select private-security firms to display their state-of-the-art gear at the Marine Corps base in Quantico, Va. The three-day show, called the Force Protection and Equipment Demonstration (FPED), is unique in that the vendors have to put up or shut up: they have to prove that their products actually work as advertised...
...four student curricular review representatives—Schachter, Mahan, Danny F. Yagan ’06 and Emily E. Riehl ’06—will stay over the summer to help select the 10 to 20 best essays and then revise them. They hope to distribute the “mini-book” over Freshmen Week and to hold forums or activities to engage the freshmen in the Curricular Review process...
Once again, Prefrosh Weekend is upon us. For the next few days, more than 1,000 prospective Harvard students with blinding red folders will overrun campus. They will have no idea where Leverett or Cabot is. And, for all they know, The Fox and The Spee are select secret societies dispersed somewhere along Mt. Auburn St. They just might believe anything. They will never have heard of Mather Lather, dined inside a dining hall, or eaten at the Kong. Oh, the things they shall...
...eligible, a school must have been—or currently be—in the top 14 on U.S. News & World Report’s listing of top research universities or liberal arts colleges, according to Touchings. A select group of other schools, including some arts schools like Julliard, are included as well...
...legacy. “Family Guy” is something of a bridge between classic animated comedy like “The Simpsons” (to which it bears a number of striking similarities), and the new wave of Adult Swim comedies which tend to repel all but a select core of viewers after a single episode (“Aqua Teen Hunger Force” and “The Brak Show” are prime examples...