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...iron gates and car barriers. In the Underground system and many other public places, litter baskets-an easy place to plant bombs-have been removed. In July 1993, after the ira exploded two bombs in London's financial center, the 1-sq.-mi. district called the City, officials threw a "ring of steel" around the area. Smaller streets have been closed off at one end, channeling traffic down just seven main arteries where police conduct random checkpoints and high-resolution cameras record license plates and drivers. Private businesses have also been encouraged to install cameras that sweep the streets, until...
...organ proves itself a perfect accompaniment for McLachlan's voice on "Good Enough," giving the song a solemn tone that fits its subject matter. About some from of domestic abuse ("It's not the wind that cracked your shoulder/And threw you to the ground"), "Good Enough" places McLachlan in the strong, supporting role of a friend...
Hansen, 20, threw himself in front of a train at the Porter Square T station last Wednesday, Raymond Chan '97, said...
...fall on Head of the Charles weekend. Brent and Dave spent time planning the party; they let their proctor know in advance it would happen. "At the time," Sam says, "I had the sense Harvard social life was pretty lame. Now I'm just deadened to it." They threw a good party. They served drinks but made sure it didn't get out of control. No property was destroyed, no one was hurt. When another proctor came by and told Sam and Dave to close the party down, they did. They thought that would be the end of the story...
...stand at Cu Chi was a model of lionheartedness compared with what the NVA columns entering Saigon proper found on April 30. The South Vietnamese soldiers confronting them did not just flee; they threw away everything that could identify them as soldiers and tried to melt into the general population. Bui Tin, an NVA colonel and journalist, says he spent that last morning "with one of our units taking a fortress that had been held by a South Vietnamese division. All the South Vietnamese soldiers who had fled had abandoned their uniforms. Everywhere you looked on the road, they...