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...Harvard Real Estate (HRE), known today as Harvard Real Estate Services, began its attempt to remove tenants from Craigie Arms, a 60-unit building at 122 Mt. Auburn St. that had deteriorated rapidly under rent control...
...checkpoints and generally vouchsafe the population and U.S. forces against IEDs and gunfire. While different regions report varying degrees of success, here in the Yusufiah - one point in the area once known as the Triangle of Death - the decline in violence has been dramatic and precipitous. When the Army unit occupying this region approximately 10 miles south of Baghdad first arrived in October, they came under fire at least once a day. So far in May, they haven't been fired on once. Townspeople report a similar improvement, saying that they feel safer and enjoy a freedom of movement that...
...find a way to have women searched at high-traffic areas," he says. "Secondly, this is an employment program. After years of war and sectarian violence, many of the women around here are widows and have no way of supporting themselves." Working with community groups in town, Starz's unit began recruiting both Shi'ite and Sunni women, paying them $8 per day. Unlike the Sons of Iraq, which is organized along tribal lines, the Daughters of Iraq is designed as a bipartisan group. Says Starz, "Everybody has gotten along perferctly harmoniously on all shifts...
...Marines created a similar force, called the Sisters of Fallujah, in December, but the Army unit in Yusufiyah is hoping that this initiative takes hold throughout the country. That is a long way off, however. "There are not going to be women manning all the checkpoints along with the men any time soon," says First Lieutenant Joshua Snyder, who helps oversee the program. "Right now, we can only have them working when there is a significant coalition force presence nearby. Even women searching women can be controversial to some more conservative types...
...eventually moved to New Jersey and settled into the life of a security executive, but Rescorla still acted, in some ways, like a man at war. His unit, Morgan Stanley, occupied 22 floors of Tower 2 and several floors in a nearby building. After the 1988 bombing of Pan Am Flight 103 over Lockerbie, Scotland, Rescorla worried about a terrorist attack on the Trade Center. In 1990, he and an old war buddy wrote a report to the Port Authority of New York and New Jersey, which owns the Trade Center site, insisting on the need for more security...