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...Bush hard-liners had long believed that stability could come to the Middle Eastand Israel--only if Saddam Hussein was overthrown and Iraq converted into a stable democracy. Led by Deputy Defense Secretary Paul Wolfowitz, they were installed at various national-security choke points in the government, and nothing moved without their O.K. Bamford comes very close to stating that the hard-liners were wittingly or unwittingly acting as agents of Israel's hard-line Likud Party, which believed Israel should operate with impunity in the region and dictate terms to its neighbors. Such a world view, Bamford argues...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Book Review: One Expert's Verdict: The CIA Caved Under Pressure | 6/14/2004 | See Source »

...that working-class Boston neighborhood, theUniversity just purchased 52.6 acres of land,divided between large tracts of land on the eastand scattered storefronts on the west. Harvardsays for now that this is just a land bank, withno immediate plans for development...

Author: By David A. Fahrenthold, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Selection may reflect shifting University focus | 10/8/1998 | See Source »

...like the eastand westbound sections of the streamliner, however identical they appear to be, [these laboratories] are simply not headed in the same direction. The aim of science is to discover new knowledge and new principles. The aim of technology ... is to invent new devices, new machines, new processes, new techniques. And in the long run the new developments in technology will be based only upon the new knowledge uncovered by science...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Double Danger | 1/30/1950 | See Source »

Last week half that many-100 Curtiss P-40 planes-had reached Burma. For the past few months tall, bronzed American airmen have been quietly slipping away from eastand west-coast ports, making their way to Asia. Pilots to fly the P-4Os and ground crews to maintain them will soon be scattered over southwest China from the Burma border to Chungking. These pilots were not just a crew of barnstormers turned warstormers. They had been, until recently, crack U.S. Army Air Corps pilots. To take on this combat job they had been allowed to resign their Air Corps posts...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: World War: FAR EASTERN THEATER: Convoys to China | 6/23/1941 | See Source »

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