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Harvard launched the campus-wide text message alert system following the Virginia Tech shooting last spring and has recently reemphasized its importance in light of the shooting at North Illinois University last month. CORRECTION

Author: By Shan Wang, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: 60 Percent of Students Enrolled in Emergency Text Message Program | 3/6/2008 | See Source »

...homes - none of which had sold since their opening last summer. Gutt, the FBI special agent, said authorities were not ruling out any possible motives, noting that the banner and other unspecified evidence recovered at the crime scene had been sent to the FBI lab in Quantico, Virginia, for analysis. "I don't know where the facts will take the case," he said. "We're confident that it will be solved but we're also realistic that it's going to take some time...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Local Support for Green Arson | 3/6/2008 | See Source »

...that Romney had hoped to capture. But it was not enough to overcome the mortal blow he suffered in South Carolina, where he narrowly lost the evangelical-rich state to McCain, who had the help of Fred Thompson splitting the conservative base. Nevertheless, he fought on, campaigning hard in Virginia, Wisconsin and Texas. The delegate math, and entreaties from various Republican leaders for him to drop out, was no matter. "Folks, I didn't major in math. I majored in miracles," he said, only half-joking. "And I still believe in those...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Huckabee's Improbable Insurgency | 3/6/2008 | See Source »

...Probably the most discernible difference between Harvard and Cambridge is the lifestyle. The luxury of Cambridge—the endless formal dinners, the beautiful grounds with expensively maintained gardens, the wine cellars—is premised on that insight that Virginia Woolf expressed so well in A Room of One’s Own. Woolf claimed that “a good dinner is of great importance to good talk. One cannot think well… if one has not dined well. The lamp in the spine does not light on beef and prunes.” As anyone...

Author: By Alexander Bevilacqua | Title: The Lamp in the Spine | 3/5/2008 | See Source »

Other contests might be more favorable for Clinton (Pennsylvania, Indiana, Guam, West Virginia, Montana, and South Dakota), but even decisive wins in those states - say, in the 60-40 range - would still leave her behind in both elected delegates and the overall count. That remains true even if Clinton somehow succeeds in getting the disputed delegates from Florida and Michigan seated at the convention...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Clinton Wins Big, but Math Is Troubling | 3/5/2008 | See Source »

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