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...London, says that "the security threats applying to each side of the Atlantic are increasingly varied, and not of high salience to the other. The Americans worry about missiles raining down from rogue states. The European governing classes worry about the mess they made of the Balkans in the '90s and want to do better in the future. Neither side really accepts the other's view." But the gulf between them is more fundamental than security disputes alone...
...speaking, there's something rotten in the state of Denmark. Pundits who once breathlessly exhorted the virtues of the New Economy now sound the alarm. "Danger ahead," they say. Some Really Smart People, like Alan Greenspan, have even begun cautiously dusting off that dreaded R-word from the early '90s: recession...
...regions are laying off employees. The thing is, a dot-com firing 200 employees, an auto maker closing one plant and a newly-merged company like AOL Time Warner eliminating 1,200 redundant accountants and secretaries does not add up to a job market like that of the early '90s, when millions of jobs were lost every year. As it stands, the economy is currently adding 150,000 jobs a month, which is a slower pace than in years past but certainly not something to get everyone worried about bread lines. Any Harvard student going into the job market...
...autumn of 2000, Hanssen needed more than luck. The back room was still digging, since none of the previous arrests explained all the blown operations of the '80s and '90s. Not too long after "B" resumed contact with the Russians, the analysts concluded that the failures were caused by leaks from FBI files. They were sure the FBI harbored another mole...
...university stopped monitoring high school education and started accepting fewer students. Over the years, applications soared, and a series of increasingly bitter fights began over who would get the increasingly precious slots, especially at the university's flagship schools, Berkeley and UCLA. During the late '80s and early '90s, Berkeley admitted half of its freshman class purely by a numerical formula in which SAT scores were the most important element. Because of the substantial gap among the races on the SAT, the schools could maintain a substantial minority presence only by explicitly setting test scores aside - which...