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...Warren Street tube station on one of the busiest shopping streets in the heart of London, police wearing fluorescent yellow jackets swarmed the station while riders filed out of subway cars to safety above ground. Sofiane Mohellebi, 35, was traveling on the Victoria line when he smelled what he describes as "burning tires and wires" in his car. Mohelleei said that he did not hear anything, and did not see any smoke, but that the smell was overwhelming. He said that people started to panic as soon as they smelt the burning. "I could not figure out why people were...
...always in these kinds of attacks, there was a tremendous amount of confusion, and unexplained incidents. Michelle Sinclair, 24, was eating lunch at a nearby restaurant when the events occurred at Warren Street. When police cordoned off the street she said, she saw a call pull up with two members of the British transport police inside. They went into the station and grabbed a tanned skinned man with shoulder length hair, wearing a backpack and hurried him into the back of the car. According to Sinclair, the man did not struggle as car sped...
...Warren Professor of American Legal History Morton J. Horwitz, who drew 413 students to Paine Music Hall last fall for Historical Studies B-61, “The Warren Court and the Pursuit of Justice, 1953-1969,” is offering another legal history core course, Historical Studies A-84, “American Constitutional History from the Framing to the Present...
...Chief Justice William Rehnquist: Possibly the next justice to retire. Appointed by Richard Nixon in 1972, Rehnquist replaced Warren Burger as Chief Justice in 1986. Rehnquist is a strict constructionist (he interprets the Constitution in very narrow terms) who leans conservative. Very much in favor of states' rights. Often speaks in terms of leaving issues up to the "people's branch in government," i.e., the legislature. Widely considered a skilled consensus-builder...
...Warren Buffett may be the greatest investor ever. But his long-term philosophy, which was ridiculed as he avoided the dotcom boom--and vindicated as he avoided the bust--is being scrutinized once more. The buy-and-hold billionaire is up to his ears in exotic investments known as derivatives, which are used to bet on things like the weather and the direction of interest rates. Derivatives were at the core of the 1994 bankruptcy of California's Orange County and the 1998 demise of hedge fund Long-Term Capital Management. Buffett once called derivatives "financial weapons of mass destruction...