Word: swiftness
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...Kerrey's Raiders, as the squad called itself, had little experience but lots of enthusiasm. Despite warnings of "considerable danger," toward 12 midnight on a moonless night, the men piled into a swift boat and headed for Thanh Phong. Darkness gave cover but heightened the confusion. As the men crept toward the village, they bumped into an outlying hooch they thought was a warning outpost. Kerrey says his men, wielding knives, told him they would "take care" of the people inside to prevent them from alerting the village. But Kerrey says he did not join in the killings or examine...
...shopping, execute an array of criminals. This year they are taking aim at violent offenders and triad gangs, and that offers Huang a bumper crop of kidneys, livers and hearts for needy patients, many from Hong Kong. Getting a kidney from death row may sound merciless, but it's swift, efficient?patients can be matched to donors in advance?and a bullet in the brain causes no damage to other organs. It's a booming business: many execution areas have extraction clinics on-site...
...Wednesday the Boston Globe outlined a plan to bring the protest to a swift conclusion while allowing everyone at Harvard to benefit. Harvard would agree to raise to $10.25 per hour the wages of the approximately 400 workers it directly employs, with the implicit goal of extending the same wage to all other workers on campus. In return, protesters would leave Massachusetts Hall and allow the University to begin negotiating wage agreements for both union and non-union workers...
...stood on the outskirts of Jedwabne, a memorial to the former Jewish residents of the small Polish town who were killed by the Nazis in World War II. But the memorial was a lie. On a July day in 1941, 1,600 Jews were murdered in Jedwabne in a swift, brutal and barbaric pogrom. Some were clubbed to death, others drowned; the head of one young Jewish girl was cut off and kicked. Mothers were beaten to death with their babies in their arms. As darkness fell, 1,500 Jews were forced into a barn, which was then doused with...
...what was perhaps the highlight of the event, guest speaker Abner Mason '85, the chief secretary of Massachusetts and a former student Foundation member, read a proclamation on behalf of Mass. Gov. Jane M. Swift declaring April 26 to henceforth be "Harvard Foundation Day" in Massachusetts...