Word: experts
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Xiaomeng, an expert on Chinese agricultural development, was winding up his second year as a visiting re- searcher at the Harvard Institute for International Development...
...well-informed expert is Vincent Cannistraro, head of counterterrorism at the CIA during the Bush Administration. "Command and control of Hamas," he says, "is not coming from the U.S. There are not more than 10 or 15 members here, and there is no operational nerve center here." He believes that the headquarters is in Iran and that most of the funding comes from Arab states in the Middle East. Bruce Hoffman, the Rand Corp.'s terrorism expert, says, "I'd look to Tehran or Damascus as the control center." As to financing, Hoffman adds, "My suspicion is that the money...
...long-awaited civil rights version of the same case, scheduled to begin this week, federal attorneys have tightened their arguments. The prosecution will call civilian eyewitnesses, who have told a grand jury that King did not attack his tormentors, as well as an L.A.P.D. use-of-force expert who testified that the kicks and blows to King were violations of department policy. A transcript has surfaced quoting police- and fire-department dispatchers as they sarcastically imply that King was being punished because he led the cops on a high-speed chase. Another difference: this time U.S. District Judge John...
...sources of the foul odors that generate 10,000 complaints each year from the fastidious Japanese. Officials have used machines to track down smells, but these olfactometers are no substitute for the human nostril. "Measurement of offensive odors," says Manami Fujikura of the agency's special-pollution division, "needs expert , knowledge and technique." And a strong stomach...
Freidel, who lectured at Harvard for 26 years before retiring in 1981, was an expert on the life of Franklin D. Roosevelt...