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...Harvard should lease out the properties that it owns, but the buildings are left empty. Some of the vacant properties can’t even be found in Harvard’s 50-year plan. When Harvard does lease out sites, they do so to businesses that foreshadow a wave of gentrification that threatens the neighbourhood’s low-income residents...
...imminent threat, we stand to lose many, many American lives. But what ticking bomb? In one memo it states that it was thanks to waterboarding 9/11's mastermind Khalid Sheikh Mohammed (who was, according to the memo, subjected to the procedure 183 times) that we learned about a "Second Wave" of attacks. There has been little heard since about the "Second Wave," so without more documents declassified, it can be assumed that KSM made it up to stop the waterboarding. In another memo, it is noted that senior Al Qaeda member Abu Zubaydah was tortured into admitting...
...paramilitary leader, Diego Fernando Murillo Bejarano, alias "Don Berna," held over the city, suppressing uprisings from other drug gangs. But in May 2008, Don Berna was arrested and extradited to the U.S. and Don Mario sought control over the monopoly held by his rival, ushering in a new wave of violence. Homicide rates in Medellin rose by 32% in 2008, according to the mayor's office...
There we go...now you're starting to see that impending wave of final papers looming for the last week in April. A little tutorial paper? Another one for your Core? Some seminar class you've been coasting through all semester? Time's up folks--you'll be lugging a bag full of Widener books for the next couple of weeks...
When Shevket Osmanov moved to his family homeland in 1987 after spending all his life in Uzbekistan, the welcome he received was less than effusive. "People were terrified of us," says Osmanov, who was part of the first wave of Crimean Tatars to return to the Crimean peninsula on Ukraine's Black Sea coast during perestroika in the late 1980s. "Ten days before Eid al-Adha [the Muslim Festival of the Sacrifice], they closed all the schools because there were stories that we were going to sacrifice children...