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...Bruce Hoffman, a terrorism expert and professor at Georgetown University, also sees parallels in the way the two groups are organized and the fact that they both began to pursue a utopian yet undefined vision of a future society. Like the leaders of the RAF, al-Qaeda's leaders come largely from educated, middle-class backgrounds and in their desire to correct what they see as long-standing injustices, both groups embrace violence. "Both give a wider, productive focus to the individual's frustration of not being able to affect policy through normal channels," Hoffman says. "For young people looking...
Acclaimed cyberlaw expert Lawrence Lessig will return to Cambridge next summer, extending Harvard Law School’s recent streak of poaching top-flight professors from rival schools. Lessig will re-assume a professorship at the Law School after nine years at Stanford, where he said he moved in 2000 to be closer to his wife, a native of California. In addition to being a law professor, Lessig will direct the Edmond J. Safra Foundation Center for Ethics. Calling Lessig “one of the most brilliant and important legal scholars of our time,” Law School...
...large army is likely to be de-emphasized in favor of a provincial structure that relies more on local militias to provide security. "There's a widespread belief in national-security circles that the Bush Administration's goals for Afghanistan were too ambitious," says Stephen Biddle, a military expert at the Council on Foreign Relations. "If George W. Bush had served a third term, my guess is that he would be re-evaluating his aims...
...find any non-expository dialogue escaping her lips—a rare misstep in an otherwise flawless film.The transition from stage to screen is fraught with pitfalls. A stage play adapted for cinema must expand its scope without losing the intimacy of its original format. Thanks to the expert direction of Ron Howard, and brilliant performances from its cast, “Frost/Nixon” accomplishes this task admirably. The best of cinema is combined with the best of the stage to produce a rare hybrid—an epic battle of human proportions...
...efforts to overhaul the U.S. healthcare system. But Daschle also brings to the job the Midwestern manners that made him a likable personality on Capitol Hill. Since leaving the Senate in 2004, Tom Daschle has maintained close ties to Washington, as an employee of a lobbying firm, healthcare policy expert and an early adviser to the Obama campaign. (See TIME's Top 10 Political Photos...