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...Guards Union (HUPSMGU) President Danny Meagher confirmed yesterday that he and the guards will meet with University representatives and the Harvard University Police Department (HUPD) Friday morning to “discuss [the guards’] futures.” HUPSMGU represents the seven guards and HUPD oversees their unit...
While it was Bernakevitch’s even-strength tally that rattled the normally-unflappable Howard, the Crimson’s potent power-play unit brought Maine to the brink of defeat, converting on three of four opportunities...
Palestinian factions often jockey to lay claim to nonmilitant "martyrs" as a way to expand their base by showing their deep-pocketed generosity. But Hamas does the same for slain fighters in a well-oiled campaign to turn every death to its advantage. One unit arrives at the morgue with a loudspeaker van to play Hamas' famous funeral song. Another unit organizes volunteers to carry the body, draped in a green Hamas flag, to the dead person's house, then to the mosque and then to burial. For Muslims, accompanying the body earns points in heaven. A third unit goes...
Omar's gentility was an antidote to such violence. A trained computer engineer, he graduated with honors from Teesside University in England and served in a radar unit of the Iraqi army for six years before becoming a successful businessman. In his second career, as a translator for TIME, Omar chased stories as fearlessly as any seasoned journalist, helping our reporters expose the crimes of Saddam Hussein's regime and chronicle the trials of the occupation. He was at his most delighted guiding the uninitiated through Baghdad's old city, shopping for books and insisting that we stop...
...Dragonfly, which produces potable water by extracting moisture from air--and could change the way water-scarce countries meet their daily water needs. There are some drawbacks: the surrounding air must have at least 40% humidity, and each device costs about $1,000. Lum, however, insists that the unit price will fall as her team refines the design, and says Dragonflys may soon be found in refrigerators and even cars...