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Critics ranging from Bush Administration officials to former Alaska governor Sarah Palin argue that President Obama should have designated Abdulmutallab an enemy combatant - a term abandoned by the Obama Administration last year - and ordered him held in military custody, to be eventually tried by a military commission. That would have...
But Obama's evident frustration reflected the fact that no amount of security measures can stop a plot if the information about potential terrorists isn't used properly. It's the very centerpiece of the damning 9/11 Commission Report - the ability of intelligence agents to "connect the dots." Five years...
Some E.U. airports, including Schiphol in Amsterdam and Heathrow in London, already offer passengers the option of walking through a body scanner instead of undergoing a physical pat-down search. But in 2008, when the European Commission suggested devising regulations on the use of scanners in the E.U., European Parliament...
Ah yes, the Undergraduate Council. Forgive us. But who can call it a satisfying school year without an appearance made by our governing body? It all began on the night of Nov. 19, when the UC Election Commission decided to "de-certify" the results of the presidential election released that...
For decades, residents of U.S. cities would synchronize their pocketwatches using a giant globe that would descend from a pole in a public space to mark the exact hour. Ochs conceived of an ornate "time ball" that would descend just before midnight to mark the exact end of the year...