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...side" is the fraying of the international coalition of intelligence services - including those in Europe - that have been cooperating in unprecedented ways. This solidarity is one of the unsung successes of the last four years and a key reason why there has been no second terrorist attack on the scale of 9/11. Countries that may publicly poke a finger in Uncle Sam's eye can still work with him hand-in-glove behind the scenes. France, whose opposition to Washington's Iraq policy requires no précis, hosts a secret joint operations center with the cia in Paris called...
...confined to cages 24 hours a day, bred with no limit on the number of litters and no required socialization with other dogs or with humans?" asks Josette Aramini, cofounder of the new United Against Puppy Mills group in Lancaster. The organization has worked to shutter large-scale breeders by petitioning local zoning boards to deny them permits...
...they present O’Brian with a large cardboard version of his head, and they go home and watch themselves on TV, where he visits them (maybe this part isn’t so realistic). This relatively straightforward sequence is literally warped: the video plays with proportion and scale, stretching the Stripes vertically and horizontally, and using tricks of perspective to make them alternately tower over each other, not to mention the occasional use of midgets to portray O’Brian and passers-by on the street. Also, Meg’s giant foot from the future crushes...
...HBS’s ability to fulfill its unique mission as a business school. In reality, students should not be so worried. The issue is not the release of the grades themselves, but exactly what the effects of the release will be. In HBS’ case, the grading scale that the school uses will effectively keep competition at a healthy level while simultaneously promoting accountability for academic performance. The forced grading scale for every class at HBS gives the top 15 to 20 percent of students a “I,” the next...
...Zhang said he received "a memorandum" from Beijing around midnight on Nov. 21, but didn't reveal the contents. He told officials to be ready for a disaster on the scale of an earthquake or a bird flu outbreak. At 2 a.m. on Nov. 22-presumably with Beijing's permission-Harbin put out a second statement alerting the population to the water stoppage. This time, the statement acknowledged that the chemical-plant explosion had "perhaps polluted the water" in the Songhua. This announcement seemed to calm residents, as did efficient logistics that ensured access to plenty of clean drinking water...