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...extremely erudite—he knew a lot about the world," said Michael S. Flier, director of the HURI and a Ukrainian philology professor. "[When speaking to him,] you knew you were around an expert. You had to make sure you were accurate...
...other expert, who asked to be identified only as a European intelligence official, understands the U.S. consternation over the failure to identify Abdulmutallab before he boarded Northwest Flight 253 from Amsterdam to Detroit. After all, the official says, an August CIA intercept of a phone conversation in Yemen caught extremists speaking of a Nigerian preparing a strike. And more recently, Abdulmutallab's own father alerted the U.S. embassy in Abuja, Nigeria, of his concerns that his son's radicalization made him a security threat. Even as Abdulmutallab allegedly put his plot into motion, the official says, details of his movements...
...could qualify for taking on the responsibility that Bernanke, an expert on the Great Depression, did. His readiness was evident not just from his academic background but from his oft cited 2002 speech on deflation. In the speech, Bernanke showed the creativity and open-mindedness that have been hallmarks of the bold actions he has taken during the financial crisis. Tony Crescenzi Newport Beach, Calif...
Tripsas—a business innovation expert who wrote for The Times' monthly column "Prototype" since August—was accused of accepting travel and lodging from a source. The day after her Dec. 26 column lauding 3M Company's customer innovation center was published, anonymous Times watchdog blog NYTPicker reported that 3M had paid for Tripsas' trip to a day-long briefing at the center...
...Still, such a risky test is bound to raise a lot of questions. Security experts say they are perplexed as to why the Slovakian authorities would attempt this kind of experiment using real explosives - and a real passenger. "I've never heard of an incident like this before," says Tim Ripley, a British security expert who writes books about defense issues. "It's very unusual for a civilian to be used unwittingly in these kinds of tests. Normally an airport would use its own staff for tests. So to hide explosives in someone's bag and just hope...