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...foiled 2002 Al Qaeda plan to use "shoe bombs" to hijack a commercial airplane and fly it into the tallest building on the West Coast - a Los Angeles skyscraper that intelligence analysts later determined was the Library Tower, now named the U.S. Bank Tower. Later in the day, counter-terrorism czar Frances Fragos Townsend told reporters that two South Asian and two Southeast Asian countries had helped arrest all four cell leaders planning the attack, which was designed as a follow up to 9/11 and originally revealed in 2003. Townsend said all four cell leaders are still in custody, although...
...right time” to step down.Kirby said he did not expect his resignation, effective June 30, to derail the curricular review—as some professors have said it might. “You cannot expect that the next dean will come in and lead a counter-reformation,” Kirby said, casting the recommendations of the review’s committees as views of the Faculty, and not his own. “It is up to the Faculty to vote on the recommendations that it is bringing before itself.” Kirby, who will take...
...launched its first restaurant redesign in 30 years; more than 6,000 locations will feature the new look by year's end. Customers will have three zones to choose from, based on their dining needs, says Peter Dixon of Lippincott Mercer, the firm that created the new McD. Counter seating will serve eat-and-run customers. Those looking to linger will find soft lighting and plush chairs. Mingling teens can cram tables together in a flexible seating area. "It's something [McDonald's] should have done years ago," says restaurant analyst Howard Penney of Friedman Billings Ramsey. The design suggests...
...cannot expect that the next dean will come in and lead a counter-reformation,” Kirby said, casting the recommendations of the review’s committees as views of the Faculty, and not his own. “It is up to the Faculty to vote on the recommendations that it is bringing before itself...
...Some U.S. counter-terrorism officials reportedly believed they had Zawahiri in their sights two weeks ago as he supposedly attended a dinner in a village in Pakistan's tribal region of Bajaur north of Peshawar. Zawahiri's tape provides no useful clues as to whether he had actually been in the vicinity that day or not. But the attack showed how badly the U.S. wants to bring down the taunting terrorist...