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Keefe’s actual rock-solid information on Echelon is slim-to-none, due to the intense secrecy of the program—if the U.S. government blew off the European Union’s recent attempt to learn more about the system, a law school student from Yale can hardly expect to gain more privileged information. Combined with the intelligence maxim Keefe repeatedly cites throughout the book—that there is an inverse relationship between how much actual secret information someone knows and how much they are willing to talk—the possibilities for any substantial...
...good times kept rolling for the men’s volleyball team last night at the Malkin Athletic Center, as Harvard blew past EIVA conference opponent New Haven in three straight games (30-22, 30-21, 30-26) behind solid defense and a punishing offensive attack...
Since Wiener specifically takes aim at The Crimson, it’s hard to review his work without at least a twinge of defensiveness. And perhaps Wiener is correct that The Crimson blew the Thernstrom controversy out of proportion, contributing to the politicization of what was in reality a civil disagreement between a teacher and his students over a course syllabus. One chapter later, however, Wiener gets his facts flat-out wrong when he launches an unwarranted attack on Pulitzer Prize-winner Laurel Thatcher Ulrich, the Phillips professor of early American history at Harvard...
...Tigers traveled to Pennsylvania three nights later to take on the league-leading Quakers. Princeton pulled out to an 18-point lead, but blew it and eventually succumbed in overtime, killing all Tiger title hopes—a fourth Ivy loss essentially means no chance at the NCAAs...
...which ravaged the country from 1975 until 1990. During his tenure, gleaming hotels and apartment towers sprang up along Beirut's Mediterranean shore. Perhaps that is why it was there, on a bend in the famed seafront corniche just by the five-star Phoenicia Hotel, that a thunderous explosion blew apart Hariri's armor-plated convoy, killing him and 14 others. As the blast showered the pavement with broken glass and sent a column of black smoke into the sky, suspicion quickly focused on the country that has used political assassination to maintain its dominion over Lebanon for three decades...