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...pilot version of US VISIT has been operating in Atlanta since November. Officials report that the trial program already prevented several passengers with criminal records from entering the country...
Though it serves a useful purpose in the Quad, allowing residents to avoid possibly dangerous late-night Doritos runs to Porter or Harvard Square, the Celeris pilot program must now either take steps to break even or close in failure. Satisfying the munchies for 75 students a day, while a noble cause, isn’t enough to justify the huge expenditure...
...Rumsfeld doesn't have a name for his habit of withering cross-examination, but he does have an analogy. "My theory in skiing is, if you're not falling, you're not trying, and that's worth remembering. I teach that to my grandchildren." The former Navy instructor pilot tries a different metaphor: "You've got to work the edge of the envelope...
...children were shooting marbles in the dirt. Around 10:30 a.m., villagers saw the Warthog circle once over the house, vanish behind a mountain and come roaring back, firing what villagers said were 35 explosive rounds. Each was powerful enough to destroy a tank. The children were in the pilot's field of attack. There was little left of them except the marbles, a few shredded prayer caps and small pools of blood...
That is something Prime Minister Ariel Sharon's government would not welcome. The pilots' lawyer, Michael Sfard, tells TIME that any such case would test the legality of targeted eliminations themselves. The pilots were dismissed because they threatened to disobey orders, but Israeli law permits soldiers to disobey clearly illegal commands. So the court would be forced to decide whether the pilots are right to call the targeted eliminations illegal. "We're fighting to keep Israel moral, democratic and strong," says Captain Assaf, a dissenting reserve F-15 pilot, whose last name can't be disclosed owing to military restrictions...