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Melissa Hathaway, the Obama administration’s former top cybersecurity officer, officially took her place at the Kennedy School’s Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs on October 1, where she know serves as a senior advisor to the Center’s Project Minerva...
...committee could give it to the president after so short time. For a long time the Swedes have argued that they should take over the responsibility for the prize. Now they have really good arguments for that." Echoing that sentiment, Jan Arild Snoen, columnist for the conservative Norwegian website Minerva, said, "To award the peace prize to a sitting president during a war which he not only supports but actually wants to increase troops for, is very peculiar. I think there is a danger that it will make Norway look silly...
...Spector, the song and the recording were one thing, and they existed in his brain. When he went into the studio, it came out of him, like Minerva coming out of Jupiter's head. Every instrument had its role to play, and it was all prefigured." - Jerry Wexler, Atlantic Records producer who worked with Ray Charles and Aretha Franklin, among others, on Spector's greatness as a producer (Rolling Stone, April...
...this is remarkable if the allegations against Park Dae Sung are correct. According to his lawyer, Park taught himself economics, reading books on the subject since 1997. Indeed, there are some skeptics. The conservative monthly ShinDongA claims that Park may not be the real Minerva at all and that a group of eight other bloggers have professed to writing under the alias. Park's lawyer says the magazine's allegation is "nonsense...
...case, Minerva "ran circles around the government," says Brendon Carr, a lawyer with the law firm Hwang Mok Park in Seoul. In the past, explains Carr, the government was usually able to assert its views by strenuously voicing its opinions to newspapers and broadcasters by way of phone calls. But officials didn't know how to reach whomever was behind Minerva except by public announcements - which got the government nowhere. The resulting arrest of Park, Carr contends, is a classic case of bureaucrats with old habits struggling to adjust to the new Korea. "Korea is supposed to be a democratic...