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Initially, President Bush’s selection of Henry A. Kissinger ’50 to head a panel to investigate pre-Sept. 11 intelligence failures may seem an odd one. After all, until recently Kissinger publicly resurfaced from his mysterious consulting firm only for rare press interviews. And despite the complaints of vehement commentators like Christopher Hitchens, who would like to see the former national security advisor and secretary of state indicted for war crimes, Kissinger has largely faded from current public consciousness to become a figure for history books...
...panel argued before a 400-person audience over whether the conflict is rooted in the Israeli occupation or in the fanaticism of Arab culture...
Just a few years ago, Samsung was the brand you bought if you couldn't afford Sony or Toshiba. Suddenly it's the name that consumers all over the world--especially young ones--seek out for the most fun and stylish models of everything from cell phones to flat-panel plasma TVs. One of the driving forces behind that transformation is Eric Kim, who was reared by Korean parents in Southern California and returned to his homeland to work as head of global marketing for Samsung Electronics...
...November 14 hearing before the House Armed Services Committee, the chairman of a panel established to study U.S. vulnerabilities to terrorism talked about the SAM threat. "Nobody knows whether or not the enemy has their hands on a Stinger missile and can get it delivered into this country," James Gilmore, a former governor of Virginia, told the committee. "But it's a lot easier to do that, and a lot more available than, for example, a smallpox attack, which would be more difficult to get, and to deliver, into this country...
...early 1960s. About half the world's wild fisheries have been exhausted by overfishing. In the North Atlantic, one of the most depleted oceans, populations of popular fish (cod, flounder, haddock, hake and tuna) are just one-sixth of what they were a century ago. A European Union panel last week backed calls for a total ban on the fishing of cod in the North Atlantic and a moratorium on the fishing of haddock and whiting there...