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Project Minerva—the first initiative of its kind at Harvard—consists of various professors and officials interested in cybersecurity from the university’s various schools, including Rosenbach, the Kennedy School’s Richard Clarke and Joseph S. Nye, and the Law School’s Jack L. Goldsmith...
...exceeds any other physical theory ever developed, and yet, some of the greatest thinkers ever to have lived—even Albert Einstein and Erwin Schrödinger, pioneers of the theory—had difficulty accepting the phenomenal implications of interpreting the theory’s mathematical formalism. Richard Feynman, the charismatic second generation quantum physicist, famously quipped, “I think I can safely say that nobody understands quantum mechanics.” It is no easy task, then, for the writer without a considerable scientific background to intelligently and meaningfully engage with...
...months, almost since the earliest days of the Obama Administration, and postponed at least once. It is just the most recent display of bipartisan goodwill between current and past holders of the highest office in the land. These alliances often span vast differences in both ideology and age: Richard Nixon paid a secret visit to Bill Clinton, 33 years his junior, to discuss Russia policy in 1993; Herbert Hoover met with John F. Kennedy, 38 years his junior, before he was inaugurated in 1960. Bush, at 85, is 37 years older than Obama...
...BEDFORD POST Fall brings an explosion of color to the dense forests and backcountry trails of Bedford, a posh village just an hour north of Manhattan that's a favorite with the horsey set. Bedford is also home to such bold namers as Glenn Close, George Soros and Richard Gere, who recently opened the Bedford Post, BedfordPostInn.com, with wife Carey Lowell. With its in-house yoga studio and elegant gardens, Gere's B&B is the town's most ambitious stab at a true luxury hideaway. Housed in a 247-year-old building, each of the Post's eight rooms...
...that has been generated by the U.N. probe into last winter's fighting in Gaza that left more than 1,400 Palestinians and 13 Israelis dead. Israel is mounting an 11th hour diplomatic blitz to scupper U.N. discussion of the Human Rights Council investigation led by South African judge Richard Goldstone, which accuses the Israeli army and Palestinian Hamas militants of committing war crimes. Israel insists the probe is biased and, in the words of Defense Minister Ehud Barak, "twisted, fraudulent and tendentious." At a Security Council meeting of the issue on Wednesday, Israeli ambassador Gabriela Shalev said the report...