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...were arrested with bombmaking materials and maps of government buildings, some had traveled to the outback for a group bonding and hunting adventure. One month before the July 7, 2005, London transit bombings, two of the suicide bombers went white-water rafting together. Given these flickerings of a pattern, the Circuit City tape, which might have been ignored 10 years ago, set off a cascading series of actions. Each step led inexorably to the next, adding up to a multimillion-dollar case, which may have saved people's lives - or not. "That's the problem," says Michael N. Huff, attorney...
...graduate students to become the sole instructor and the more of a shift in that direction, the more that grad students are being treated as part-time faculty,” said Curtis, who is the AAUP’s director of research and public policy. While this pattern is believed to be particularly prevalent at research universities, like Harvard, Curtis said that specific data on courses taught primarily by graduate students is not yet available. In addition to graduate students, Harvard’s FAS employs 325 lecturers and preceptors throughout its departments. Employing faculty with short-term contracts...
...Navy's Sixth Fleet, based in Gaeta, Italy, now spends much of its time patrolling the coasts of Africa. This year, using another $100 million allocated to Africa under the Global Peace Operations Initiative, U.S. soldiers will train and equip units from 13 to 15 African countries. The pattern of a growing U.S. military interest in the continent was confirmed on Oct. 1 with the opening in Stuttgart, Germany, of Africom, a 200-officer command dedicated to operations in Africa. The immediate focus of the new command is likely to be the Horn...
...math of moviemaking enthralls Smith, who calls himself a "student of universal patterns." To hear him talk about analyzing the weekend box office with Lassiter is to see flashes of the aspiring engineer who almost attended MIT. "Every Monday morning, we sit down--'O.K., what happened this weekend, and what are the things that resemble things that have happened the last 10, 20, 30 weekends?' It is so much fun to look at something everyone's looking at to see if a different pattern comes out for you." With Legend, Smith hopes to break one of Hollywood's rigid rules...
...also extremely vague. It defines harassment as engaging in a “pattern of conduct” that would cause a reasonable person to suffer “substantial emotional distress.” But what period of time results in the distinction of a “pattern” rather than haphazard nastiness? And what does “substantial” entail for the “average” person? Suicide? A few tears...