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...McKevitt was joined in prison by eight men accused of training at a camp run by the Continuity I.R.A., another dissident group, and Belfast is regularly brought to a halt by bomb scares. "The dissidents are always a threat," says one British security source, "but there is definitely a higher-level threat at the moment." Thanks to good intelligence, police on both sides of the border are regularly intercepting members of the I.R.A. factions as they set out on attacks. But they still worry about what would happen if the information breaks down. "Even if we stop...
Taking the Putnam is the only experience of its kind in the college world. A higher-level equivalent to high school math Olympiads, it’s funded by the estate of William Lowell Putnam, class of 1882. The 65-year-old annual competition is open to all undergraduate students enrolled at universities and colleges in the U.S. and Canada; some high school students, generally seniors also participate...
Feldstein says that an introductory economics course should teach only the neoclassical economic model, and that if students are interested in the critique of that model, they should go on to take higher-level courses. However, many students never take higher-level courses, and if there is a broader view of economics within the field, why should students be denied the opportunity to study it in an introductory course...
...arrested last November, along with two other North Africans, amid reports - officially denied - that they were preparing a chemical attack on the London Underground. Who is commanding the European cells now? According to Jacquard, French intelligence officials say Kadre shared responsibilities in Europe with Abu Mossab al-Sarkaoui, a higher-level al-Qaeda official who left Afghanistan before 9/11, around the same time as Abu Atiyya. Intelligence sources believe al-Sarkaoui is responsible for directing the operatives, including kamikaze sleepers that Abu Atiyya sent to Europe. At some point, many of these people seem to have passed through France...
...Sometimes we’ve relied on the middle core and the lower players,” Bajwa said. “Now we’re going to have to rely on the middle core and the higher-level players...