Word: experts
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Since the days when the roster of any Harvard freshman class looked like a who's who of former prep school oarsmen, Harvard has been using other universities as its private academic farm system. When a new yak dung expert was needed, Harvard raised its glance from its teacup and and cast a look to the horizon, indulgently regarding the faculties of other universities before raiding them for their academic stars. Often enough those bush-league sluggers were only too happy to escape Madison, or Berkeley, or Chicago--places where nice tweeds were hard to find...
Although the complex trial will call on dozens of expert witnesses and last up to eight months, it will be watched closely elsewhere in the country where residents face contamination of belowground drinking water from toxic wastes. Throughout the nation, decades of careless disposal of industrial wastes have resulted in water that is unsafe to drink...
...program's goal is to confuse Soviet weapons planners, the U.S. public and Congress are also being deceived. Four U.S. Senators have asked the Senate Select Committee on Intelligence to investigate. Defense Department officials disclaim knowledge of any such program, and their denials could be sincere: one intelligence expert suggests that a rumor about distorted data could itself be a U.S. disinformation technique...
...target of opportunity, and therefore useful, but also expendable," says a State Department official. Moscow "provides only enough military aid to make United States military intervention costly and save the Soviet 'revolutionary' reputation, not enough to guarantee survival or risk confrontation," writes Robert Leiken, a Central American expert with the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, a Washington think tank...
...acting as a whole is mere window dressing. This is a film about sword fights, and what sword fights there are! The beginning and end of Highlander are so breathtakingly packed with expert swashbuckling and awesome scenery that the audience doesn't have time to stop and disbelieve. Well-timed, quick switches between the caverns of Manhattan and the beautiful Scottish landscape reduce the sensation of temporal incongruity to a minimum. The film should have never stopped to explain all this nonsense about immortality and the Prize. The sword fights and action scenes are what make Highlander a might...