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...Gourguechon finds the endless speculating exhausting. "Initially we were talking about electrical failure, yesterday we were talking about icing conditions, tomorrow we will talk about something else," he says. "ADIRU failure is as credible as very bad weather, hail, an electrical failure. I would not give priority to one scenario...
...Israeli far right - many of whose supporters gathered yesterday outside the U.S. consulate with portraits of Obama with a Palestinian headscarf superimposed on his head, with the words "Jew-hater" written beneath - is unlikely to be swayed by Obama's balanced oratory. Even among moderate Israelis, there is a doubt about Obama's intentions. "His middle name, Hussein, keeps coming back to me. We're suspicious of him," says Yossi Danon, a high-tech expert. "Obama's entitled to change U.S. policy in the region - this is too much for Israel." (See Cairo getting ready for Obama...
Lowell House senior Brittany J. Smith ’09—one of two students linked to last month’s shooting in a Kirkland House entryway—will not receive her diploma at today’s Commencement exercises, the Boston Globe reported yesterday. Smith is the long-time girlfriend of New York songwriter Jabrai J. Copney, 20, who last month pled not guilty to charges of first-degree murder for the May 18 shooting that led to the death of 21-year-old Cambridge resident Justin Cosby early the next morning. After the incident, Copney...
General David H. Petraeus, chief of U.S. military operations in much of the Eastern Hemisphere, including the Middle East, lauded the importance of “individual leaders” in a speech at the ROTC Commissioning Ceremony in Tercentenary Theatre yesterday. After beginning his speech on a comedic note, Petraeus encouraged “what must be the smartest new members of our military” to make use of the leadership skills they had developed through their training. He also implored them to follow “five critical admonitions”: “lead by example...
Family and public service are two points in the same continuum, newly-confirmed Secretary of Health and Human Services Kathleen G. Sebelius told the soon-to-be graduates of the Harvard Kennedy School yesterday...