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Terrorism is like a balloon: Squeeze one end, and it expands at the other. As the U.S. and other governments harden security around military facilities, diplomatic posts, key businesses and transportation nodes, terrorist operatives look for targets that are not so well protected. CIA interrogators questioning Omar al-Faruq, the al-Qaeda lieutenant detained in Indonesia in the summer, learned he had cased the U.S. embassy in Jakarta but abandoned an attack when he saw the compound's hefty security. Terrorists have switched to striking Westerners where the risks are lower. As a U.S. intelligence officer says...
...more TV dramas draw viewers into the field, the more universities are likely to strengthen their curricula. That, in turn, could help the investigative arts harden, at last, into the true science they need to be. This won't please criminals, but it might also disappoint the new crop of forensic scientists. Raised in a world of CSI bells and Crossing Jordan whistles, they may not be prepared for the fact that forensics is not always fast or fun or pretty. It's a grueling business of trial and error, of investigative dead ends, of repeating the same experiment over...
...college in 1953 to teach art history. While Roberts has received the lion’s share of media attention over the past week (including a large front-page photo in the Boston Herald), her supporting cast is no less impressive, including Oscar winner Marcia Gay Harden, HBO’s Dominic West and teen favorites Kirsten Dunst and Julia Stiles. Mike Newell, best known for 1994’s Four Weddings and a Funeral and the 1997 mob flick Donnie Brasco, directs the film...
...Juliette Kayyem ’91, executive director of the Kennedy School of Government’s executive session on domestic preparedness, says that the initial response—harden and protect every target across the board—has gradually given way to a more nuanced approach to terrorism...
After Sana saw ground zero with her own eyes, her romantic view of bin Laden began to harden. "At first I couldn't believe that he was behind these gruesome attacks," she says. But the video released in December, which shows him gloating over the destruction, turned Sana against him. "He thought he was a savior of Muslims, but he was warped and wrong," she says...