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Elsewhere students mistook the sounds for construction work going on nearby. Liviu Librescu, 77, the Holocaust survivor, was teaching solid mechanics on the same hall when the class heard the shots. He braced his body in front of the door, yelling to his students to head for the window. They pushed out the screens, jumped or dropped into bushes below to escape. "I must've been the eighth or ninth person who jumped, and I think I was the last," said Alec Calhoun, who landed in a bush and ran. The two students behind him were shot, he said...
...writes, “Israeli efforts to excise the ‘cancer’ of Hezbollah proved as deadly as misapplied chemotherapy for a cancer patient.” This line and others like it are not only out of place, but completely unnecessary. Still, Norton presents a solid history of the creation of Hezbollah, the context in which it developed, its current place in the Middle East and the world, and his predictions for its future. For those looking for a background of this prominent group, “Hezbollah: A Short History” provides a thorough...
...December 2006 report by Dutch think-tank EPN detailed the economics, rights, and well-being of users in Second Life. EPN wrote that “there is no solid middle class in Second Life. People are either ‘poor’ or they earn a lot.” A main cause of this is the ease with which users can pursue their self-interest and desires for profit. But what really unites these problems of profit and short-sighted decisions is a general lack of empathy. Users who pursue wealth at the cost of cooperation, teaching...
...strength of the bullpen is also bolstered by junior Max Warren and rookie Dan Zailskas, who have come up big in spot starts and relief stints. Warren has not allowed a run in eight innings pitched, while Zailskas posted a solid six-inning effort in a road win against Rhode Island last Tuesday...
...Senior skipper Marion Guillaume and sophomore crew Kerry Anne Bradford helped the Crimson to a third-place finish in A-division, while the B-division saw a solid finish from a young tandem of freshmen. Skipper James Fish and crew Jessica Walsh placed seventh for Harvard, just a single point more than Wellesley in sixth...