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...accounts, Jimmy Carter was a pretty bright guy. He studied nuclear physics at the U.S. Naval Academy in Annapolis and could read over 2000 words per minute. But Carter's presidency was disastrous for the American economy. As ordinary people were subjected to high tax rates originally intended for the wealthy alone, unemployment and growth sputtered while inflation soared into the double digits. Richard M. Nixon's intelligence was recognized by California psychologists at an early age--Nixon was one of the "termites" in the famous "Terman Study"--but this didn't prevent the Golden State prodigy from undermining...
Although the Crimson (8-5) fell to No. 17 Princeton, 9-7, on Saturday, the team rebounded with its most important win in recent years, a 6-5 triumph over the No. 16 US Naval Academy...
...into a private meeting room off the Security Council chamber. As Putin and Foreign Minister Igor Ivanov made it through the door, his security men blocked anyone else from entering. Left outside among the disappointed autograph seekers were Russia's high-powered U.N. ambassador Sergey Lavrov and Putin's naval attach? - who happened to be carrying the briefcase containing the launch codes to Moscow's nuclear arsenal...
...Because of poor maintenance levels across much of the fleet, the fleet can't put to sea very often, so personnel are less well trained," says Joanna Kidd, naval analyst at the London-based International Institute for Strategic Studies. The Kursk, as one of the newest and most important boats in the fleet, would have received enough to keep up maintenance but probably not enough to keep up vital seatime training for navy men. "It's speculation, but their reactions might have been slow," says Kidd. Similarly, the rescue efforts may have suffered from lack of training. "If most...
...intended as a dress rehearsal for a show-of-force cruise of the eastern Mediterranean later this year to be led by the aircraft carrier Admiral Kuznetsov and the battle cruiser Peter the Great. Losing the Kursk is a major setback for these plans and for Putin's naval ambitions. "He has aligned himself personally with the revival of the navy's fortunes," says Kidd. "This is a big humiliation...