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There are of course other--easier--ways to clean out the "roaches," and for these the U.S. grasped last week. The simplest scenario would be if the Taliban agreed to hand over bin Laden. U.S. diplomats have been careful to leave the Kabul government some ways to save face, insisting carefully, for example, that bin Laden be turned in to "appropriate authorities," which gives the Taliban a chance to surrender bin Laden to an Islamic state instead of to the U.S. Nearly every "last chance" offered to Taliban leader Mullah Mohammed Omar, though, has been met with a denunciation...
...across the Hudson River in Weehawken, N.J. Plastic was peeled off standby PCs. Backup computer tapes were sent in by messenger. Plans were in place to reroute communications from international banking networks, but by the time the system was up, operators were hours behind. "You cater to the worst scenario, but this was worse than we had planned for," says Norman Gilchrist, head of global operations. Yet within 12 hours of the attacks, the bank--assisted by its Plano, Texas-based computer service provider EDS--had processed 19,000 transactions worth $14.3 billion, or nearly 70% of its backlog...
...ultimate war game for armchair strategists. A dozen experts gathered at Andrews Air Force Base for two days in June for a germ-warfare assault on America's heartland. The exercise was called Dark Winter. The scenario: Oklahoma, Georgia and Pennsylvania have been deliberately targeted with smallpox virus. The mission: to marshal the full resources of the Federal Government and limit the damage. But even though the players included seasoned leaders--former Senator Sam Nunn acting as the President, former presidential adviser David Gergen as National Security Adviser, Oklahoma Governor Frank Keating playing himself--the situation got quickly...
...Citing security concerns, the Air Force won?t lay out a scenario for killing 150 people in the air to save others on the ground, whether they are the many - such as with the World Trade Center - or the few, say, in the White House. The tradeoffs between the life of a voter and the life of a public official - or, for that matter, the numerological comparisons between innocents in the air and on the ground - have never been publicly debated. Perhaps it is better that...
...This scenario of partial failure is typical at Harvard because of the high quality applicant pool. Everyone is over-qualified for all positions, so good people get turned down. I can rest assured that when the column editors said that "deliberations were exceptionally difficult,” they weren’t lying. Picking superior Harvard students is extremely difficult, since clear standouts usually don’t exist...