Word: experts
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Once in the White House, Currie became an expert at making small talk with visiting dignitaries, members of Congress, Cabinet Secretaries and other Administration officials as they cooled their heels waiting for the ever tardy Clinton. In a tense atmosphere, where any information about the President's mood is vital, she was a great early-warning system. "She would never say, 'He's in a bad mood,'" says Chip Blacker, a National Security Council official, "but if things weren't going well, she'd open her eyes dramatically and pronounce, 'Well, it has been an interesting...
When he was appointed "special master" last December in the Justice Department's closely watched antitrust suit against Microsoft, Lawrence Lessig expected that by spring he'd be the most important person in the court--the expert telling Judge Thomas Penfield Jackson how to sort through the legal and technological issues underlying the complex case. Instead, he's the one being judged. A federal appeals court will decide this week whether he is, as Microsoft claims, too deeply biased against it to make an impartial recommendation...
...bizarre twist in what is already one of the most tangled tales in the history of antitrust. Lessig, 36, a Harvard professor of law, is primarily a constitutional, rather than an antitrust, expert. Nevertheless, he is widely recognized as a leading thinker on how to adapt ancient legal principles to the new digital age. When the Supreme Court struck down the Communications Decency Act last year, Justice Sandra Day O'Connor repeatedly cited his article "Reading the Constitution in Cyberspace" in her separate opinion. He has written famously about the "tyranny of code," how seemingly insignificant details of software design...
...Pentagon says it is looking into claims that a group of hackers calling itself 'The Masters of Downloading/2016216' has broken into the Pentagon's telecommunications backbone, stolen software for a military satellite system, and threatened to sell it to terrorists. John Vranesevich, a security expert and proprietor of AntiOnline.com who was instrumental in the capture of Analyzer, reports that the MOD/2016216 has "acquired" key security software from NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory. And the hackers haven't neglected their military operations: They claim to have stolen submarine tracking software, and ominously promise to "prove it in early...
University of Florida Professor Mark Brenner joined the class for the remainder of the project. An expert on limnology and paleoecology, Brenner has joined ESPP students at Archbold for several years. Brenner writes in an e-mail that the planning exercise "requires students to make a rapid assessment of issues in Highlands County and [to] develop a future land-use plan based on considerations of ecological principles, economic realities, a knowledge of stakeholder interests (e.g. retirees, citrus agriculture, ranchers, etc.) and social issues...