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Dates: during 1990-1999
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After graduating from secondary school at 18, Knowles followed Britain's national service policy and joined the Royal Air Force (RAF) as a Pilot Officer...

Author: By David A. Fahrenthold and Chana R. Schoenberger | Title: Portrait Of a Dean | 6/3/1997 | See Source »

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...

Author: By David A. Fahrenthold and Chana R. Schoenberger | Title: Portrait Of a Dean | 6/3/1997 | See Source »

After a briefing with the British Prime Minister on gulf troop deployments, the RAF wing commander visited a used-car showroom. As he browsed, secret documents and a laptop computer were stolen from his parked car. The papers were recovered, but the laptop is still missing...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Shop Till You Drop Citation | 1/14/1991 | See Source »

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