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...scruffy building in central Moscow, a small paper sign pasted on the wall directs visitors to Directorate R of the Moscow police. R stands for nothing: it was just the next code letter available in 1986 when the police decided to set up their own communications-security branch. These days the Directorate's bread-and-butter work is computer and mobile-phone fraud. But their biggest nightmare - and that of their counterparts in Western Europe and the U.S. - is digital attack. "This, unfortunately, is the future face of terrorism," says Dmitri Chepchugov, head of Directorate R. So far, politically motivated...
...dean of FAS actually has a fiefdom bigger than most universities,” Stone explained, pointing to the branch labelled Faculty of Arts and Sciences...
Coatsworth pointed to the opening this July of the first-ever student advising center abroad. The Rockefeller Center’s new branch, based in Santiago, Chile, will be the only center of its kind run by Harvard and will assist students studying in Latin America...
...active Republican in the moderate branch of the party, “ Whitehead says. “I was always interested in politics...
...vaults of rare manuscripts, or stacks that rise to heaven, or stone animals out front. (James Baldwin wondered if the New York Public Library lions were posted to protect him when he was inside, or to keep him out.) What I have in mind is a regular old local branch library, with kids bopping in, and retirees bent over newspapers, and a librarian who looks very much like Laura Bush telling a teenage girl where she can find Emma...