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...first Gulf War, Robert Gates liked to tell a story about his boss, George Herbert Walker Bush. As Bush 41 was preparing to invade Kuwait in 1990 and free that nation from the clutches of Saddam Hussein, Pentagon generals came up with what they thought was a clever scheme that might prevent the President from going to war. Gates was in the Oval Office when the generals brought in maps, charts and pointers and told Bush that Kuwait could be liberated only if he was willing to spend six months deploying half a million troops halfway round the globe...
...their papers a little more carefully than usual this year. That is, if they don’t want any academic misdemeanors to be detected by TurnItIn.com, a sophisticated online service designed to sniff out plagiarism. Harvard’s Instructional Computing Group is this year implementing a pilot scheme of the service. The possibility of a more expansive roll out looms, potentially giving way to a time when every student’s work would be subject to a thorough honesty test run by a computer. It is hardly surprising that the College is taking steps to improve cheating...
...there are, among others, Zacarias Moussaoui, the sole individual convicted of involvement in the 9/11 attacks; Ahmed Ressam, arrested at the Canadian border with explosives he had planned to use to bomb the Los Angeles International Airport; and Abdul Hakim Murad, convicted in Operation Bojinka, a 1995 al-Qaeda scheme to blow 12 planes, 11 of them U.S.-bound, out of the sky during a 48-hour period...
...strange milieu, and his desperate need to find a sense of community in the new Oz. In Chicken Run, the outsider was a brash American rooster who crash-landed in an English hen house. In Flushed Away, the English hero is dumped into a land where the natives scheme, shout and betray, In a word: Hollywood...
...noble, or that computer cartoons can't bear the imprint of one creator-can't have soul. It's in a way a matter of corporate identity for a hand-made film studio. Should Aardman go fully into 3-D? For stop-motion specialists, is CGI a hare-brained scheme, like the ones Wallace is always hatching, needing Gromit to extricate him? Or does it represent the inevitable next step? Once the Aardmen have made a film with computer, can they return to the old ways? Go back home? How're ya gonna keep 'em playing with clay after they...