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...exhibition is like a toy store for grownups. The several thousand products on display range from such low-tech items as a concrete bunker and a machine for filling sandbags at high speed to a nonlethal directed-energy weapon that can heat a human body to an unbearable temperature and an "acoustic sniper finder" that uses eight microphones to locate an enemy shooter based on the sound from his rifle shot...
...thousand dollars lost in good faith is still ten thousand dollars. Between negotiation fees for the defunct Snoop Dogg Springfest concert and the under-attended Campus Life Committee (CLC) event “Havana on the Harbor,” Harvard’s Undergraduate Council (UC) is in the red for a near-five-figure sum. But although the negotiation fees were unavoidable expenses as the UC sought to secure a top-shelf act, Havana on the Harbor was an unmitigated waste of student money. The UC, and especially the CLC, must eschew overly risky endeavors as they attempt...
...human rights and are willing to make a quick buck without competition. Boycotts and divestment are meaningless unless there are harsh penalties for not complying. “Harsh penalties” generally mean government sanctions and not the shrill cries (or silent protest) of college students several thousand miles away...
...Ambrosio chief Roberto Calvi; in Rome. Calvi, known as "God's banker" because of his close ties with the Vatican, traveled to London when his bank was near collapse and was found hanging under Blackfriars Bridge in London, his pockets stuffed with bricks, rocks, a false passport and several thousand dollars in cash. A London coroner originally ruled the death a suicide, but in 2003, Italian prosecutors issued a report concluding that Calvi had been murdered by the Mafia...
Died. Ruth Hussey, 93, onetime model best known for her Oscar-nominated role as the wisecracking photographer sent with reporter Jimmy Stewart to cover the high-society wedding of Katharine Hepburn in The Philadelphia Story; in Thousand Oaks, Calif. Hired by MGM in 1937, reportedly as a threat to keep stars Myrna Loy and Norma Shearer in line, she appeared in more than 40 films, including Northwest Passage, opposite Spencer Tracy, and as athlete Jordan Baker in the 1949 remake of The Great Gatsby...