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...churning out the answer to the secret of life. Until that happens, one’s understanding of the phrase inscribed on Dexter Gate (“Enter to grow in wisdom/Depart to better serve thy country and thy kind”) is pretty straightforward: Enter to expand your knowledge of useless trivia. Depart to better promote the wonders of this University to the world. Seriously, this place owes one a stipend as a tour guide...
...does a civil servant who has launched a major attack on the Bush presidency protect himself from what he has unleashed? Richard Clarke, the former counterterrorism adviser to Presidents Bill Clinton and George W. Bush--who saw al-Qaeda expand under his watch, attack U.S. interests abroad and produce the deadliest terrorist attack in U.S. history--knew he couldn't pin the blame on his bosses if he didn't start by apologizing himself. So he prepared his words carefully. At 3 a.m. on the day of his testimony, "I got up and went down to my study and actually...
Palestinian factions often jockey to lay claim to nonmilitant "martyrs" as a way to expand their base by showing their deep-pocketed generosity. But Hamas does the same for slain fighters in a well-oiled campaign to turn every death to its advantage. One unit arrives at the morgue with a loudspeaker van to play Hamas' famous funeral song. Another unit organizes volunteers to carry the body, draped in a green Hamas flag, to the dead person's house, then to the mosque and then to burial. For Muslims, accompanying the body earns points in heaven. A third unit goes...
...gritty it'll turn your mind numb." Some of the best intelligence comes from interrogating captured terrorists. The Counterterrorist Center helps direct and analyze those sessions. It's all about "who knew who five years ago," says the official. "Where did they go after that? How did the network expand? What were they plotting then? Where did they live? Who did they live with?" But the adrenaline really gets pumping after an attack like the one in Madrid. The Counterterrorist Center will immediately run through a checklist of questions: What's the first take from the local intelligence service? What...
...forward on his global mission with renewed purpose. He wants each of Saddleback's 2,000 small groups to adopt a village in a developing country, make mission trips there and send educational and medical supplies, along with spiritual and financial support, to its residents. Eventually, Warren hopes to expand the program to the more than 10,000 other Purpose-Driven churches around the nation. "I think God gets the most glory when you tackle the biggest problems," says Warren, "so I've decided to use my influence to help the poor and oppressed, and I'll spend the rest...