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...Spanish citizens of Indian origin were also questioned by the police. According to a Spanish government official, at least two and possibly all four of the Indians ran a shop in Madrid where they sold--not always legally--prepaid SIM cards. Spanish defense analyst Rafael Bardaji suggests they may have been unwitting collaborators. "Perhaps the poor chaps were only the people who prepared the illegal phones," he says. "The question is, to whom did they sell the phones...
...comic-book tie-ins, but with Michael Chabon's comic-themed The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier and Clay, the move makes sense. The Escapist (Dark Horse Comics), a new quarterly anthology series, collects stories starring the novel's Houdini-like superhero. The first issue includes the Chabon-written origin of the Escapist, with art by Eric Wight, along with several tongue-in-cheek tales by other comic-book writers and artists. Each one evokes a different period of the medium's history: Howard Chaykin turns in a '50s-style hard-boiled story of a red-baiting Senator with a diaper...
Author of The Origin and Prevention of Major Wars, and State Failure and State Weakness in a Time of Terror, Robert Rotberg talks about his new book When States Fail: Causes and Consequences. This book comprises fourteen previously unpublished essays, which examine how and why states decay and what can be done to prevent this from happening in the future. 12.30 p.m. Room L150. First Floor, Littauer Building...
...ambitious journey halfway across the solar system to intercept and land on Comet 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko, which is currently streaking across space at more than 100,000 km/h inside the orbit of Jupiter. "What's totally obsessing me is that we're launching into a comet and searching for the origins of life," says David Southwood, director of science at the European Space Agency (ESA), which is orchestrating the Rosetta project. "We're going out there, landing on a comet and doing our analysis in situ." Southwood and his colleagues at esa are indulging their obsession at a time of heightened interest...
...Center for Equal Opportunity alleged in a letter to Harvard officials last March that the Business School program’s race-based restriction violated Title VI of the 1964 Civil Rights Act, which prohibits recipients of federal funds from discriminating on the basis of race or national origin...