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Most Israelis didn't need an official commission of inquiry to tell them that Prime Minister Ehud Olmert made a major hash out of last summer's war in Lebanon. When Hizballah kidnapped three Israeli solders last July, Olmert launched a massive military campaign whose stated goal was beyond reach: to end Hizballah's existence as a military threat. Instead, Israeli ground troops found themselves bogged down in deadly urban combat with Hizballah guerilla whose tenacity and tactics the Israelis were unprepared for. That, together with the barrage of rockets into northern Israel that continued until the cease-fire went...
...testament to social progress—it is football, after all. The winners and losers aren’t chosen subjectively—they’re chosen on the field. And as important as the coaches are, they only have so much control over what happens between the hash marks. True, an element of advancement exists in the naming of a black coach in the first place, but those benchmarks have long been passed by Dungy and Smith (in 1996 and 2004, respectively...
Bacon may be astaple of theAmerican breakfast, but it's probably not a terrific idea to eat it every day. Or sausage or corned-beef hash, for that matter. Researchers from the Karolinska Institute in Stockholm pooled data from 15 studies and found that eating just over an ounce of these smoked and processed delicacies each day increased the risk of developing stomach cancer from 15% to 38%. The culprit may be the high salt content of such meats, which could irritate the lining of the stomach, or perhaps the nitrate and nitrite additives, which are known...
...public meeting yesterday, the city’s Cable TV, Telecommunications and Public Utilities Committee sat down with Council members and local residents to hash out the details of its plan to provide free wireless Internet access to all of Harvard Square—indoors and outdoors—within the next year and a half...
...done but it takes time, so it’s not easy.” University Technology Security Officer Scott O. Bradner says that the PIN server is almost uncrackable. Even if an ingenious Cantabrigian were to break into the server, Harvard PINs are stored in a cryptographic hash and cannot be decrypted even by the system manager. And as for credit card numbers, one card issuer, Harvard University Employees Credit Union, guarantees that it stops all abnormal transactions for one card. There’s not much room for error here, says employee Jose M. Flores, unless someone fails...