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...first assisted under head coach Ted Donato ’91 from 2004-2007. During this time, Jay worked closely with the Crimson’s special teams unit. Under his leadership, Harvard’s power play was among the nation’s best, with the 2005-06 and 2006-07 squads killing penalties at 85.2 percent and 80.8 percent, respectively...
...fitting that as I was writing my previous book, an historical novel called Heyday published in 2007, I turned 50. Once your life has lasted a full historical unit of time - half a century! - and assuming you've been paying reasonably close attention, "history" becomes less of a bookish abstraction about treaties and battles and bills and dates, and begins to acquire a more palpable reality. Around age 50, I started to feel, in ways I really hadn't when I was younger, as if I could see and feel the rhythms of history. The year of my birth...
...scanners are a boon to police work, having an impact that is as significant as that of the police radio in the 1950s. "They truly are a force multiplier," says Sergeant Dan Gomez, the officer in charge of the Los Angeles Police Department's Tactical Technology Unit. In a typical 10-hour shift, Gomez says, a police officer traditionally could run perhaps 100 license plates through the system - calling the information in or typing into a computer, then waiting for a response. In comparison, says Gomez, the APLR system can process from 2,000 to 2,500 license plate "hits...
...while it seems unsettling to exist as a unit of one, it is still undeniably liberating not to be bound by a system of social control that stems from the six letters that follow my first name. Ahmed N. Mabruk ’11, a Crimson news writer, is a history concentrator in Mather House...
...Booker's tougher policing methods are not getting rave reviews from all residents. "It seems like the cops hate us," says DeAndre Breeland, a legal aide who lives in the South Ward. On a late-June night patrol, two cars from the Newark police department's street-crime unit zipped through some of the city's most notorious neighborhoods, slowing down to check on groups hanging out on stoops and flashing lights to make sure there was no funny business. The glares from Newarkers said it all: Get out of here. Of course, these same detractors didn...