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According to Sam M. Simon ’06, the communications director of the College Dems, the group has successfully enlisted one-third of all first-years through the Freshman Activities Fair and the dorm storm...
Alex I. Burns ’08 said he decided to join the College Dems when he decided to attend Harvard. He said he thought the group was well-run and that the dorm storm was an effective way to get more students involved...
...loaded detonator pedals held down by the feet of two guerrillas. If either man allowed his foot to stray, the hostages were told, the room would explode. "Bear this in mind," one of the guerrillas said, referring to the Russian commandos who surrounded the building. "They are planning a storm. We will defend you to the last bullet and then blow ourselves up. We have nothing to lose. We came here...
Despite Putin's pledge not to storm the school, special forces and other crack troops came pouring into the surrounding area. To avoid being overwhelmed by narcotic gas like their comrades had been in the October 2002 Moscow theater siege--in which 41 terrorists and 129 hostages died--the rebels quickly smashed the school's windows. After reviewing the situation, an officer from the secretive Alpha antiterrorist unit told a senior Beslan legal figure that the Moscow theater siege "was a kindergarten compared to this...
...reaction, the Nepali capital erupted in the worst violence in memory as Hindus took revenge on the country's million-strong Muslim minority. Mobs stormed and set fire to mosques, including Nepal's biggest, the Jama Masjid, burned the Koran in the street and built barricades of burning tires. Rioters ransacked Muslim businesses, tried to storm the Egyptian embassy and torched the offices of airlines of four Muslim countries. Shops, offices and schools shut down, and the government imposed a curfew in the capital and two other cities. When police opened fire on a Kathmandu mob, two people died...