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Officers of the Harvard University Police Department (HUPD) responded to a report of an unknown intruder at 1:29 a.m. Sunday, Lieutenant John F. Rooney said...
Some republican supported what has been called the "minimalist" position, which sought to placate those who feared the unknown by minimizing the changes in becoming a Republic: they wanted a "President" who would be appointed in very much the same way as the present Governor-General. Other republicans wanted to involve the people in the appointment of the Head of State, preferably by election...
...Unknown startups like Amgen, Genentech, Genzyme and Biogen scrambled to harness the natural machinery for weaving proteins within each living cell. With the support of "big pharma," the giant pharmaceutical companies of the past, these startups rolled out scores of blockbuster drugs that addressed diseases like hepatitis and cancer in entirely novel ways...
...martial law, and many of the soldiers sent to put down the demonstrators were surely as young, as confused and as uncommitted to aggression as many of the students were. As one of the pro-democracy movement's leaders said, the heroes of the tank picture are two: the unknown figure who risked his life by standing in front of the juggernaut and the driver who rose to the moral challenge by refusing to mow down his compatriot...
...nowadays, in the video archives of the memory, playing in eternal rerun, are many new faces, unknown, that remind us how much history is made at the service entrance by people lopped out of the official photographs or working in obscurity to fashion our latest instruments and cures. In a century in which so many tried to impress their monogram on history, often in blood red, the man with the tank--Wang Weilin, or whoever--stands for the forces of the unnamed: the Unknown Soldier of a new Republic of the Image...