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Though Falk currently has no affiliation with Williams, Gregory M. Avis, the chair of the presidential search committee, which began working in January and gave Falk final notification last week, said he believes the physics expert understands Williams’ mission and values...
Falk will be taking over as the successor to Morton O. Schapiro, an expert in the economics of higher education who left Williams after nine years at the helm to become president of Northwestern University...
...point it was that somebody becomes radicalized and then decides to become a terrorist," a senior Obama Administration official tells TIME. "Usually it's an evolutionary process." And what does it mean to have an Afghan immigrant take up al-Qaeda's cause? The worst-case scenario, according to experts, is that Zazi may represent an effort by the Taliban to expand its attacks on U.S. interests. Robert Grenier, a former CIA station chief in Pakistan, believes the Taliban's worldview has changed since the U.S.-led invasion ousted it from power in late 2001. "Many of the leaders...
...problem is a "bunker mentality" that exaggerates genuine security concerns, he says, noting that agency regulations prevented key personnel from accompanying even members of Congress who traveled there to examine aid projects. But other observers say the problems go far beyond security issues. For Shuja Nawaz, a Pakistan security expert and director of the South Asia Center at the Atlantic Council in Washington, the core of USAID's shortcomings is that it has outsourced "its thinking, planning and local interactions with the recipients" to Beltway contractors who are more incentivized to keep money flowing than getting results on the ground...
...believe him? Nope, me neither - but I am also not convinced that Iran intends to build a nuclear weapon. "I think they're hedging," says Jim Walsh of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, a nonproliferation expert who speaks frequently with the Iranians. "I don't think they've made a weapon decision, but I do think they want breakout capability" - the ability, similar to Japan's, to quickly assemble a bomb if necessary. "If you actually build a bomb, you start incurring real international costs, as the North Koreans have," added Walsh, referring to the fact that the Russians...