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...public support for it." And once Hungary was inside the alliance, politicians balked at the cost of the necessary military reforms. Competing projects, particularly expensive preparations for E.U. accession, took priority. "Of the three new members, Hungary has done the least," says Thomas S. Szayna, a security analyst at rand, a public-policy think tank in Santa Monica, Calif. "It continues to spend very little, has not lived up to its commitments, and is not taken all that seriously." Criticisms like these are "completely groundless," according to István Simicskó, vice chairman of the Hungarian parliament's Defense...
After getting his Ph.D. from Stanford, Morris worked for 11 years at the Rand Corporation as a national researcher, applying his knowledge of statistics in the real world so he “could do more than teach the same courses I’d taken.” But even working as a statistician outside the ivory tower, baseball was never far away. “Hospitals are like baseball players,” he says. “They have batting averages for certain types of surgeries...
...knowledge of gambling theory also helped him get married. Two years into his job at Rand, Morris went to Reno with his girlfriend, Anne, whom he wanted to marry but feared would decline his proposal. He won a dollar following a straightforward technique at the roulette table: Bet a dollar on red, if you lose bet two dollars on red, if you lose again bet four dollars on red, and so on and so on. When the board finally comes up red, you win a dollar. He gave the dollar to his girlfriend in 20 nickels, who lost...
After he left Rand in 1978, Morris went to the University of Texas-Austin, where he raised three children before getting divorced in 1990. Soon after he became single, Morris received an offer from Harvard and relocated to Cambridge, where he now lives not far from campus...
...defense analyst at the RAND Corporation in the 1960s, Ellsberg had helped to compile the extensive study, which revealed that the Gulf of Tonkin Resolution—in which Congress permitted escalated U.S. military involvement in Vietnam—had been drafted months before the North Vietnamese attacked U.S. naval vessels in the gulf...