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Well-known and well-liked, Watson “was a great asset for the department,” says Andreola F. Rossi, assistant professor of the classics. “He has a rare enthusiasm for Latin. It is quite unbelievable. He loves the language, he loves to study it. He motivates all the other students...
...acquired an important new asset in its diplomatic battle with North Korea over nuclear weapons. In what appears to be a major intelligence coup, the CIA last month recruited a foreign nuclear scientist who worked on North Korea's nuclear-weapons program, two U.S. officials and a foreign-government source tell TIME. The scientist has been relocated to the U.S. and has provided valuable information on the "location, degree of development in capabilities, where they are, how far along they are in developing multiple-weapons capability," a U.S. official said. His information, it is hoped, will be especially valuable...
...string of other phone companies have reported positive results, including British Telecom, which last week posted a 40% gain in quarterly profits. But phone companies aren't off the hook. BT's €8.1 billion pension hole dwarfs its income. And better profits owe more to cost cutting and asset sales than to underlying performance - €1.7 billion of BT's €4.2 billion income was from the sale of its stake in France's Cegetel. Long-term debt also remains staggering. DT, which has a stock valuation of €50 billion, trimmed nearly €5 billion from its debt...
...recently acquired a new asset in its diplomatic battle with North Korea over nuclear weapons. In what appears to be a major intelligence coup, the CIA last month recruited a scientist who worked on North Korea's nuclear weapons program, two U.S. officials and a foreign government source tell TIME. The scientist (who is not from the North and whose identity TIME was asked to withhold for the sake of his family's safety) has been relocated to the U.S. and has provided valuable information on the "location, degree of development in capabilities, where they are, and how far along...
...string of other phone companies have reported positive results, including British Telecom, which last week posted a 40% gain in quarterly profits. But phone companies aren't off the hook. BT's €8.1 billion pension hole dwarfs its income. And better profits owe more to cost cutting and asset sales than to underlying performance - €1.7 billion of BT's €4.2 billion income was from the sale of its stake in France's Cegetel. Long-term debt also remains staggering. DT, which has a stock valuation of €50 billion, trimmed nearly €5 billion from its debt...