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...training" exercise in this case) become nefarious? That is the subject of great debate among terrorism experts these days. "How do you decide when the line is crossed between a bunch of hotheads fantasizing and people actually planning attacks?" says Brian Michael Jenkins, a veteran terrorism expert at the Rand Corp. "The only way you can get at that is to have a good understanding of how this process works: What is the trajectory of self-identification, indoctrination, jihadization...
...Practice. But out of necessity, informants are now foot soldiers in the government's fight against terrorism. The FBI has nowhere near enough agents who can pass as young Muslim extremists. "They need informants. Two FBI agents from Duluth are not going to make it," says Jenkins of Rand. So agents delegate the job to laypeople with strong and sometimes perverse incentives. "The only way to find out what's going on inside rather closed or private communities is to get people in there to infiltrate them," U.S. Attorney Christie tells TIME. "Would I rather have a trained law-enforcement...
...vast majority of Chinese as a saint. "Ordinary people thought he was a good man," says Gao Wenqian, once Zhou's government-appointed biographer and more recently the author of the revisionist (and unofficial) Zhou Enlai: The Last Perfect Revolutionary, now available in a translation by Peter Rand and Lawrence R. Sullivan. "He is like a valuable antique in people's living rooms," Gao says. "If you tell them that it's fake or that it has a crack in it, they cannot accept...
...range and gradations within the system of thought are extensive. Assistant Professor of Government Eric A. Beerbohm says that “the term ‘libertarianism’ is increasingly an omnibus term. It’s grown increasingly beyond the [High-Churchman of Ayn Rand] and economics...
Living apart upends traditional notions of marriage, but researchers are beginning to suspect that it's not necessarily a bad thing. Studies show divorce in commuter marriages is no more frequent than in those where the couple is under the same roof. A large Rand Corp. study published last spring based on military personnel found that the longer the deployments, the higher the chance the marriage would stay together--in part because soldiers and their spouses cling to idealized memories of each other during their separations...