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...This is a real kick in the teeth," says Kenneth Pollack of the Brookings Institution, a former CIA analyst. "You have to understand that the CIA considers Afghanistan its most successful arena. This is where the CIA believes it has won two wars, in 1989 and 2001. So this has to challenge a lot of assumptions." As a result, there will be two immediate and contradictory reactions to the attack. The more overt will be a flash of spook machismo. A published comment from a CIA official included this threat: "Last week's attack will be avenged. Some very...
Councilors Marjorie C. Decker and Kenneth E. Reeves '72 tied with two votes each, with first-term council member and Harvard Kennedy School student Leland Cheung supporting Decker and council member Craig A. Kelley in favor of Reeves. Both Decker and Reeves also voted for themselves...
...lessons of Indiana University basketball coach Bobby Knight and Ohio State University football coach Woody Hayes - on-field dictators of the old school, whose bullying tactics tainted their otherwise remarkable athletic legacies. "It sounds like these guys were doing things the old-fashioned way and got busted," says Kenneth Shropshire, a Wharton School professor who is also a sports sociologist. (See the best and worst Super Bowl commercials...
DEBI HEISS, on Ohio's execution of 51-year-old Kenneth Biros, who was convicted of murdering Heiss's sister Tami in 1991. The execution was the nation's first lethal injection carried out using a single drug instead of a three-drug cocktail...
...government's search for extraterrestrials began in 1948, a year after an amateur pilot named Kenneth Arnold claimed he saw nine crescent-shaped objects in the sky while flying near Mount Rainier in Washington. Arnold evoked images of "saucers skipping on water" to describe how they flew through the air, but a local newspaper misquoted him, and the term flying saucer was born. That same year, a rancher stumbled upon a 200-yard-long swathe of rubber strips, tinfoil, wood sticks and Scotch tape in Roswell, N.M., and decided to haul the wreckage to a nearby Army airfield, where...