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...would reveal that he was ailing, wounded or disguised. They say they detected labored breathing in the tape--it is rumored that bin Laden suffers from kidney disease--and think he was reading from a script. But he may simply have used audio to make sure no watcher could glean information useful in tracking him down. Skilled at propaganda, bin Laden could have reasons for speaking now other than to signal an attack. "Terror groups don't like to be upstaged," says Brian Jenkins, a counterterrorism expert at the Rand Corp. "Bin Laden is reminding us that with...
INTERVIEW Low tech but crucial, interviews with Iraqi officials, scientists and defectors may help U.N. investigators glean important information about the development of Saddam's weapons programs...
...anti-athlete bandwagon, it is worth considering what values we hold. At Harvard today it seems that “academics uber alles” holds sway. Which is shameful as there are so many skills in life of at least commensurate importance to the ability to glean every useful piece of information from a textbook...
...other way to get those kinds of experiences,” he says. “It’s so hard to explain to other people what it means.” And it’s true. It’s difficult to glean the specifics of what a ROTC commitment means emotionally to these cadets and midshipmen. It’s not so hard to glean that it does mean a lot of work...
...breath, let alone stopping. He acknowledges as much in an e-mail message, explaining, “I almost wonder if it’s possible to understand the warnings in my letter until one has actually made the mistakes.” Harvard students, so willing to glean any piece of information which might prove useful—or, at least, testable—from an assigned text, would do well to study Lewis’ letter with the same vigor. For the simple, almost trite maxim “less is more” contains more practical wisdom...