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...secrets--political, personal, atomic. The cold war, just beginning, took form upon a battlefield of deadly concealed knowledge, of espionage and counterespionage, the terrible prize of which was the secret of the power to destroy the world. The Saturday Evening Post still gave Americans a Norman Rockwell version of themselves as an essentially lovable and virtuous people. The first programs in the new medium of television worked the same vein. But the war--as war always is--had been a violent exploration of the possibilities of human nature. Technology had expanded the possibilities in the direction of apocalypse. Americans asked...
...Length of time within which the FBI is required by law to destroy the record of a gun-ownership application after it has been approved...
There are serious consequences to what these applicants did. While their little “hack” did not jeopardize Harvard’s networks or destroy its computer systems, it did violate the trust between the applicants and HBS. For the admissions process to work, both HBS and the applicants need to trust one another. HBS can’t check every fact and the applicants can’t know HBS is always acting fairly, but the system works because both trust each other. The applicants violated that trust, and that’s a serious problem...
...came out ready to destroy them,” O’Riain said...
This week's cover package is illustrated with photographs by James Nachtwey, who has spent his career covering the myriad ways in which war and disaster destroy human lives. Jim, who has worked for TIME since 1983, has won dozens of accolades, including the World Press Photo prize last month for best single photo of a contemporary issue in 2004. The World Press Photo awards, overseen by an international panel of 13 judges who meet every February in Amsterdam, are the world's most prestigious photojournalism competition. Jim received his first-place award for an image that appeared on TIME...