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...internal debate, according to sigint - signals intelligence - picked up in this period. Bin Laden's initial calculation was that either America wouldn't respond to the attacks or that its response would mean the U.S. Army would soon be sinking in an Afghan quagmire. That, of course, did not occur. U.S. forces - despite the mishap of letting bin Laden, al-Zawahiri and most of the organization's management escape - had managed to overthrow the Taliban and flush al-Qaeda from its refuge. The group was now dispersed. A few of its leaders and many foot soldiers were captured or dead...
...worst humanitarian crises. I must take issue, however, with the authors' contention that the country cannot save itself. It is true that Congo needs a great deal of international support to hold elections, develop infrastructure and put an end to the insecurity in the east. But real progress will occur only when all of Congo's leaders and citizens decide to make things better for themselves. LAURA SEAY Goma, Democratic Republic of Congo...
...Sophie's Choice or an Out of Africa. But if the first piece you ever saw her in was 2003's Angels in America, those roles--the Mormon mom, the rabbi, Ethel Rosenberg--would be just as indelible. "I asked her, 'How in God's name did it ever occur to you to make Ethel funny?' says Nichols, who directed Angels. "I'm surprised by her every single day we shoot." She may have more surprises...
...wasn’t the idea of constant learning that administrators got wrong—it was the time and manner in which this learning would occur. The real thinking takes place during the 4 a.m. debate about whether Kantian ethics can prove “Crash” really was an Oscar-worthy film, or the middle–of-the-afternoon discussion on how Foucault proves that “Pimp My Ride” can only be understood as a social phenomenon embedded in relationships of dominance and control...
...unusual to have unanticipated results in such studies,” said Charles F. Bethea, chief medical officer at the INTEGRIS Baptist Medical Center in Oklahoma City and a member of the study’s research team, in the teleconference. “And when they occur, it’s really better to consider possible causes of the unexpected finding, redesign the inquiry, and perform it again rather than try to overgeneralize from the results that you have in front of you.”“I think at this point, any scientific endeavor, a single...