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...campus-wide emergency text message notification system—commonly known as “Message Me”—faced its first major test on Harvard’s Cambridge campus after Monday night’s shooting, but several glitches may have hampered its effectiveness, prompting undergraduate complaints and administrative consideration of possible system modifications yesterday. At approximately 5:45 pm on Monday, Message Me subscribers received the first of several text messages notifying them of the incident “near Kirkland House on Mt Auburn St.” A later message informed them...
...weeks ago, the Harvard Republican Club released the results of its college-wide student poll—on the question of official recognition for the Reserve Officers’ Training Corps—in an e-mail that capped off a weeklong campaign on the issue. The results broke down the percentage of respondents “in favor” and “opposed” to official recognition, based on the number of students who had answered...
...uniforms—Harvard, Cambridge, and state police—quickly flooded the area, but they provided no information. Until an hour later, the much-publicized University Emergency Communication system was mum; the House master did not contact the residents until 5:32 PM, and the only community-wide e-mail we all received was from Dean Evelynn M. Hammonds dealing with, of all things, the shuttle service. Tired of waiting afraid in her Kirkland room, Sarah A. Sherman ’09 opened her window and asked a police officer in the courtyard what was going on. He replied...
...rest of the world might never understand the violence Prabhakaran stood for, but its imprint on Sri Lanka is wide and deep. At the height of his power, just before the 2002 cease-fire, Prabhakaran was the unquestioned leader of a de facto government that controlled more than 15,000 sq km of territory in the north and east of Sri Lanka and had its own system of taxes, roads and courts. By the final weeks of conflict, he was believed to be using thousands of Tamil civilians as human shields against the advance of the Sri Lankan military...
...state of the world economy. The International Monetary Fund in April cut its global growth forecast for 2009, predicting GDP would contract by 1.3%, the most severe recession since the 1930s. Yet oil is some 60% more expensive now than in December. Palm oil, which is used in a wide variety of manufactured foods, has surged more than 50% this year. "The only area of the world economy I know of where the fundamentals are improving is commodities," says investment guru Jim Rogers. "The fundamentals for General Motors are not improving. The fundamentals for Citibank are not improving. The fundamentals...