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...chilling conversation recorded last March by Milan police, a pair of alleged al-Qaeda operatives discussed two ways to launch a rudimentary - but deadly - chemical attack. One method, Tunisian-born Essid Sami Ben Khemais boasted to his comrade, required an unidentified "efficient" product that could be stored in tomato cans. When released, it would suffocate its victims. At another point in the bugged telephone call, Ben Khemais refers to a "gas bomb," seemingly a much more lethal device, though apparently just as makeshift...
...department is going to be to ask questions of history and culture and art and all these things, as it should be, we need to focus more on the modes of inquiry rather than the people who are doing the inquiring. I think the first priority should be about method and the kinds of things we are studying. The fact that everyone outside of Harvard is talking about Cornel West and Larry Summers and whether Skip Gates and Kwame Appiah are going to go with Cornel and not about what Higginbotham or Tommie Shelby is doing or about Jamaica Kincaid...
While Allied Irish was measuring the damage to its bottom line and its reputation, traders everywhere were coming under closer scrutiny from nervous supervisors. Most worrying for banks and their regulators is that Rusnak may have used the exact same method as Leeson: when he began to pile up losses in currency trades, he allegedly hid these by fabricating other deals that, on paper, showed him making profits. Leeson was able to conceal his activities for two years because, like many traders at the time, he was authorized both to make and to settle his deals. In the aftermath...
That he has been termed a “classic” of American literature is a reflection of this ability to sum up or generalize the collective consciousness of his readers. That this method works, however, suggests the declining individuality of modern Americans. Today’s average American reader watches the same television, reads the same novels and holds roughly the same outlook on the outside world as his suburban nextdoor neighbor. The reader empathizes with Ford’s characters because their fictional lives are as generic and homogeneous...
...attempt to relieve the heavy traffic that clogs the halls of the Science Center basement at the beginning of each semester, Harvard Printing and Publications Services (HPPS) has developed a new method of sourcebook distribution...