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Kirkland House Masters Tom and Verena Conley notified the House of the shooting in an e-mail sent at 5:32 p.m. A Harvard University text message alert was sent to students subscribed to the system 13 minutes later...
...paper will replace door-dropping to undergraduate rooms with a distribution system that places the papers in newsracks located at House entrances, dining halls, and other high-traffic locations on campus. Child says the measure, which is being rolled out on a trial basis, is a better distribution model regardless of the economy...
...Benedict Arnold during the Revolutionary War. The board recommended to Washington that Major John Andre be executed, and he was promptly hanged. Military commissions' first documented use came during the Mexican-American War in 1847, when the U.S. Army occupied large areas of Mexico that lacked a working court system. Since then they've been used to prosecute thousands in the U.S. and abroad during the Civil War, Reconstruction, the Spanish-American War and World War II. Defendants have included a former Ohio Congressman accused of sympathizing with the Confederacy during the Civil War (ordered confined for the rest...
...horse-trade, but a budget eventually gets passed and life moves on. In the Golden State, bitter partisanship is exacerbated by a constitutional rule requiring a two-thirds majority in the legislature to pass either a budget or new taxes. Meanwhile, the state's nearly 100-year-old system of ballot initiatives has progressively tied state government in Gordian knots...
Road Trips Made Easy. My favorite mapping system is AAA's TripTik Travel Planner. You don't have to be a member of the auto club to use it. Just go to the site, plug in your start and end points and the site will map the best route for you. If you don't like the suggested route, or you want to take a side trip, you can click and drag the route shown on the map, and the directions recalibrate themselves. TripTik also notes points of interest, restaurants, hotels and gas stations along your route...