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Local residents deserve no less blame for the persistent bad blood as they continue to obstruct Harvard’s projects at every turn, even when the initiatives will cause little harm. In an effort to thwart Harvard’s planned art museum, the Riverside Study Committee recommended rezoning the Mahoney’s site with a prohibitively low height limit of 24 feet on any future construction. An art museum would not be as disruptive as Peabody Terrace, and Riverside residents would serve their own interests best by working with the University to modify existing proposals to address...
Intelligence reports that are detailed enough to act upon--like those that helped thwart recent plots against our embassies in Paris and Singapore--are unusual. That fact of life is frustrating to intelligence officers and Presidents...
...conflict is viewed as one indicator of just how much the TNI has changed?or, more often, hasn't. For 32 years, the Indonesian armed forces propped up Suharto's hard-line rule with killings, torture and kidnappings, while senior officers grew rich from corrupt business deals and helped thwart political reform. By 1998, no institution was as popularly despised as the 297,000-strong military?or in more desperate need of an overhaul...
After a conference on the mound, the Crimson allowed a sacrifice fly to drive in another score. With runners on first and third, Miller threw to second to thwart an attempted steal, but Rooney made a heads up play and scored from third...
...exceptional circumstances. Unfortunately, the resulting combination of hyperactive anxiety and vacillation results in a character who puts audience members on the edges of their seats not in terror, but in irritation. One is too busy being annoyed by Foster’s flustered machinations and belated attempts to thwart the intruders to empathize with her terror...