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...result, the rankings released during the first week of school amounted to more than a blip on the radar of the 1996-97 school year...
Knowles' wife Jane, now the college archivist at Radcliffe's Schlesinger library, says that as a radar-controller in the RAF (Knowles was slightly near-sighted and thus ineligible to fly), her husband learned crisis management skills at a young...
...when he broke the details of a top-secret U.S. attack on Libya 36 hours before the strike occurred. He's also adept at turning a story's thesis on its head, if that's what the facts demand. "Duffy's strength is that he has perfect radar," says senior editor Priscilla Painton. "He can instinctively sense where the story is going next and what the questions 10 days from now will...
...That radar, we're pleased to announce, will be guiding our entire Washington operation. Taking charge of the largest and most influential post in TIME's worldwide news-gathering service, Duffy has been appointed chief of TIME's Washington bureau...
...possible miscalculation of U.S. actions during some kind of crisis. The Russians might wrongly think they were under attack from the West and fire their rockets. This danger has greatly increased because the Russian early-warning system is not what it used to be. It has lost major radar stations in the new nations of Ukraine, Latvia and others. Some of its satellite-tracking stations have gone to Ukraine, Georgia and Kazakhstan. The high command is now partially blind, which increases its apprehensions, produces false alarms and makes good decisions harder...