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...strains used in the attacks was first isolated, say the FBI didn't object when they decided to destroy their collection of anthrax samples for fear they couldn't keep them secure. (The bureau figured the "Ames" strain was so widespread the samples didn't matter.) And while officials insist that they've been thoroughly professional, FBI Deputy Assistant Director James T. Caruso admitted to a Senate committee last week that the bureau doesn't know how many labs in the U.S. handle anthrax...
...Sciences, “B+, B and B- represent work of good quality which, however, does not merit special recognition.” When there is comparison among students, then there will be competition. It is not necessarily a bad thing, but it is a fact. Many people insist that grade inflation is a fair way to get around the problem of comparing so many strong students. The quality of the work is so high across the board, they say, that everyone should receive A’s and B’s. This is the how grade inflation...
...undersecretary approaches her job, as her staff seeks to shield her from a "media buzzsaw" that might take as metaphor her dropping a syllable from Islamabad and her comment that a 30% conversion rate for Muslims is a "sales curve any corporation would envy." They insist that Beers is a quick study who should not be judged yet. Impressions of America that took hundreds of years to form will take more than a few months to counter. Still, Beers and pamphleteering might have been Fine before Sept. 11. But that was then and this is now. Uncle...
...Taliban officials insist they have simply made a tactical withdrawal from those parts of the country they are least able to defend from the twin onslaught of the Northern Alliance and the U.S.air power. That's certainly a plausible defensive strategy in light of the strength of the forces ranged against them, but some correspondents close to the action have described a chaotic collapse, in which many Taliban commanders and troops simply fled their positions, leaving the more ideologically-motivated Pakistani, Arab and Chechen volunteers to fight and die - some of them reportedly after surrendering. Indeed, Western audiences may wince...
...President Bush himself has personally pleaded with the Alliance not to advance on Kabul, and Alliance spokesmen insist that they'll stay out of the capital. Some spokesmen, that is. Local commanders have been quoted as saying quite the opposite, and the truth is that the Alliance remains deeply divided within its own ranks. Many of its Tajik elements on the Kabul front support the return to power of President Barnharuddin Rabbani, ousted by the Taliban in 1996 - a scenario repugnant not only to the Pashtuns and their Pakistani backers, but even to other factions of the Northern Alliance...