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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...Students spent the night in Quincy House, the Science Center, and on cots in the Malkin Athletic Center until power was restored early Sunday morning. At around 8:20 p.m. Saturday, a power surge in Harvard Yard led to an electrical overload in the Adams House C entry high tension room. The surge created an electrical fire in the Adams basement and disrupted power in Adams and all the freshman dorms, according to Adams House Master John G. “Sean” Palfrey ’67, who was in touch with electricians and firemen arriving...

Author: By Vidya B. Viswanathan, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Weekend Outage Strands Students | 9/9/2008 | See Source »

...Mugabe in the first round vote on March 29, but boycotted the runoff in the face of violent intimidation. South African-mediated talks have sought to create a unity government, but the two sides cannot agree on how to allocate power within such an arrangement. (See photos of Political Tension in Zimbabwe here...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Starvation Hovers over Zimbabwe | 9/9/2008 | See Source »

...around 8:20 p.m., a power surge in Harvard Yard led to an electrical overload in the Adams House C entry high tension room. The surge created an electrical fire in the Adams basement and disrupted power for both Adams and all freshman dorms, according to Adams House Master John G. "Sean" Palfrey '67, who was in touch with electricians and firemen arriving at the scene in the pouring rain...

Author: By Vidya B. Viswanathan, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Electrical Surge Empties Adams House and Yard Dorms | 9/7/2008 | See Source »

...first step. Both countries have been seeking ways to re establish normal relations at least since Sarkisian was elected earlier this year, but obstacles include the ongoing dispute over Armenian occupation of Nagorno-Karabakh, claimed by Azerbaijan with Turkey's backing. And then there's the long-standing tension over Turkey's refusal to call the deaths of hundreds of thousands of Armenians at the hands of Ottoman Turks during the First World War a genocide...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Can Soccer Heal Turkey-Armenia Rift? | 9/5/2008 | See Source »

...until more sustainable sources of fuel are discovered," says Barrows. Krupp is blunter. "In order for Sasol to have a profitable future, we have to be cynical about the world's ability to save itself," he says. But Sasol is used to these kinds of dilemmas. "There is a tension here," Davies acknowledges. "All development makes pollution. But China and India want what the West has, so they want energy, and we offer an energy solution." The trick, of course, is to somehow also "address the climate-change challenge," he says, adding that he believes this is where Sasol...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Dirty Little Secret | 9/4/2008 | See Source »

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