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Faced with an opponent from his home state of Utah, Kenneth Brewer '11 lured his victim to his chosen killing zone by impersonating as a well-known Harvard alumnus from Utah. Brewer called his victim posing as the alumnus and asked her to meet him at Herrell's Ice Cream, a location this person frequents. Arriving early at Herrell's, Brewer watched from a booth as his victim walked to the back of the shop where she awkwardly introduced herself to some other students who she thought was there to meet the same man. Brewer then crept up behind...
...First Lady, and former President Bill Clinton had come to the SEED School in Southeast Washington, a working-class neighborhood that rarely gets a glimpse of a President, let alone two. The occasion: the signing of landmark national-service legislation that had been sponsored by the Republican Hatch, from Utah, and the ailing Democratic lion from Massachusetts...
...refinancing or a bump in interest rates, to encourage them to continue loans as they mature. "Let's provide a way for [the banks] to roll over those loans, not just say that no one wants to refinance them," said Blaine Walker, a commercial real estate broker in Utah...
This spring, for example, Texas lawmakers are mulling a new law that would allow college students to carry firearms to campus (Utah already makes this legal). "I think people weren't concerned about it first," says University of Texas graduate student John Woods, who has emerged as a spokesman for campus efforts to defeat the bill. "They thought, 'It's a terrible idea. Why would the government consider something like this?'" But as the debate on campus has heated up, that complacency has vanished, Woods explains to TIME. Students opposed to the bill plan a big rally on Thursday...
...parched American Southwest, so it takes more than a little dry spell to affect it. In fact, it requires a once-in-a-century event like the extended drought of the 1950s, which scientists now believe led to widespread tree mortality in the Four Corners area of Utah, Colorado, New Mexico and Arizona...