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...have come under plenty of criticism for their failure to prevent 9/11. Now, it seems, it's the turn of the National Security Agency (NSA). The agency, whose job is to protect U.S. government information and ferret out foreign secrets, is already taking heat for being slow to analyze two cryptic messages it intercepted last Sept. 10, warning that something big was going to happen the next day. Now a scathing classified report issued by the House Intelligence Committee has concluded that the agency is badly mismanaged, congressional sources tell TIME, and that resulted in its failing "to provide tactical...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The NSA Draws Fire | 7/29/2002 | See Source »

...have come under plenty of fire for their failure to prevent 9/11. Now, it seems, it?s the turn of the National Security Agency (NSA). The agency, whose job is to protect U.S. government information and ferret out foreign secrets, has already drawn criticism for being slow to analyze two cryptic messages it intercepted last Sept. 10, warning that something big was going to happen the next day. Now a scathing report issued by the House Intelligence Committee has concluded that the agency is badly mismanaged - congressional sources tell TIME - which resulted in its failing "to provide tactical and strategic...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The NSA Draws Fire | 7/20/2002 | See Source »

...likely to be. (If you have a chance to confer with the assistant in advance, of course—and we all like to be called “assistants,” not “graders”—you may be able to ferret out one or two cosmic assumptions of his own; seeing them in your bluebook, he can only applaud your uncommon perception. For example, while most graders are politically unconcerned, not all are agnostic. This is an older generation, recall. Some may be tired of St. Augustine flattened by a phrase...

Author: By An ANONYMOUS Grader, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: A Grader's Reply | 5/15/2002 | See Source »

...executive says the company lost $27 million. Another says, "Talk was a constant distraction. Harvey wanted it to succeed as a magazine and financially, and every day was another problem." For a while, he seemed to lose interest in film-festival acquisitions. Instead of doing what he does best--ferret out small, arty indie films and promote them to the moon--he produced a list of teen movies that were safe (She's All That grossed $63 million domestically) but to varying degrees dreadful (Get Over It made just $12 million...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Has Harvey Lost His Way? | 4/8/2002 | See Source »

...those thousands of works, to which Klee gave code numbers indicating their date and price range and his opinion of their quality, there is hardly one that has any discernible sexual content at all, no secret genitals or nipples that even the dirtiest-minded brat could ferret out. This has always helped to make him a great favorite with worried modernist parents and ensured that reproductions of his work, such as They're Biting, 1920, outnumber even those of Rousseau's jungle scenes in the nurseries of the West as unbudgeable classics of childhood...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: Flyaway Fantasy | 3/18/2002 | See Source »

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