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Deputy Chief of Police Jack Morse said that the alarms were being sold as the result of a recommendation by Dean of Students Archie C. Epps III that whistles and shrill alarms should be provided to the Harvard community...
...response to the recent spate of violent crimes in the Harvard community, the Harvard University Police Department (HUPD) has been distributing shrill alarms as a safety measure, University officials said...
Rhew said that Towne has been "especially receptive" to the council's concerns. "The idea of the shrill whistles will be tried for a year," he said...
...right base for such ventures is a handsome and well-run lodge on Ambergris Cay called El Pescador, which has all the best guides -- and a welcoming committee of two ospreys that have built their nest above its pier and greet the arriving angler with shrill wheep-wheep-wheeps of alarm. El Pescador was built by a German, Juergen Krueger, and his Wisconsin-born wife. They started it about 18 years ago, when no sober carpenter could be hired on the cay. Much of the work, from laying cinder blocks to routing the panels in the heavy mahogany doors...
...step too far in the wrong direction, and awoman candidate can risk treading on some toes.While male candidates who are outspoken andaggressive are labled "tough," women who areequally tough are often labeled "shrill" or"bitchy...