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...which does eavesdropping and code breaking) and the National Reconnaissance Office (which flies imagery satellites). The priciest gadgets are not always the ones suited to fighting the terrorist threat. During the past five years, while the U.S. spent billions of dollars to build and launch about half a dozen radar-imaging spy satellites, the CIA and others built 60 Predator unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVS) at about $3 million apiece. The Predators, not the satellites, killed terrorists in Afghanistan...
...other players are on Harvard’s radar screen. One is Luke Ruscoe, a 6’7 forward and under-20 New Zealand National Team member. According to rivalshoops.com, Ruscoe has narrowed his list of schools to three—James Madison, Dartmouth and Harvard...
...table is crowded with issues. Living wage issues, Core reduction issues, study abroad issues, archaic secretive tenure issues. There are dozens to pick from. They fade in and out, never really completely dropping off the radar. And the import of decisions today, decisions made by the bureaucratic cogs that run this venerable institution, will most likely never make anyone’s life easier or more enriching. At least not today. But the crystal ball is half-full, not half-empty. Mixing metaphors obfuscates the point but—to the rescue—the Rev. Peter J. Gomes, Plummer...
...probably won’t. In his installation speech, Summers gave every indication that the sciences were first on his to do list and loom large on his radar screen. Summers, a social scientist, may want someone with a hard science background to add depth to his proposals. If science-related initiatives are to be the cornerstone of the Summers administration, it would make sense for him to appoint a dean from the science section of the faculty...
...Taliban variety would support his proposition. “The essence of civil libertarianism is to make sure everything is out in the open,” he says. Those words echo his op-ed, which states that “[e]ither police would torture below the radar screen of accountability, or the judge who issued the warrant would be accountable. Which would be more consistent with democratic values...