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...fellow survivors gave Head a wide berth, too. "All of us are so deferential to each other," says Peter Miller, a financial planner who was on the 65th floor of the North Tower on 9/11 and who has worked closely with Head over the years through survivor events. "We just assume we're always on the brink of getting emotional." He remembers noticing one inconsistency in Head's story: Miller was there when I met Head for coffee three years ago. During our conversation, he heard Head refer to her fiancé. Years later, while conducting tours of Ground Zero...
...Criminologists point to a wide range of contributing factors to the sudden spike in cop killings. The continuing proliferation of military-grade firearms often leaves police outgunned, while some gang initiations now include the express targeting of police - such as in April of 2004, when California Highway Patrol Officer Thomas Steiner was randomly shot outside a Pomona courthouse by a teen trying to prove himself to a local gang. Other experts and activists cite the desensitizing effect of popular culture, most notably violent video games, as a key reason that more young people have no compunction about opening fire...
...task force, she said, will be modeled in part on the University Planning Committee For Science and Engineering. Formed in January 2006, that group took just under a year to release its final report, which recommended the creation of a permanent University-wide science oversight committee, and the University’s first inter-faculty department. Both debuted last April, within months of the release of the committee’s report...
Tiedemann said alumni have a wide range of reasons for donating to the University...
...school’s capital campaign draws to a close, President Drew G. Faust suggested that a University-wide fundraising drive may be farther away than previously supposed...