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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...frothy you could destroy it by blowing on it, but the show is a delight, driven by Levi's geek charm and Chuck's tentative romance with his fed overseer, Sarah (Yvonne Strahovski). The new episodes quickly jump back in, with higher stakes and sharper jokes, and creator Josh Schwartz hasn't let the strike stop him from developing Chuck's character. He's gone from nebbish-out-of-water to nerdily assured operative, capable of seducing an enemy agent over cocktails with high-IQ trivia banter ("... and that is the true history behind the croissant...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: New TV Series — Last Year's Strike Victims — Get a Do-Over | 9/18/2008 | See Source »

...over Afghanistan and Iraq. While most were surveillance - transmitting video back to their ground-based controllers - many involved launching missiles at enemy targets. "The combat contributions of unmanned aircraft systems in today's fight have surpassed all expectations and hold even greater promise for the future," said General Norton Schwartz, the Air Force's new chief of staff, in announcing the staffing shift...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Flying Air Force Drones: Pilots No Longer Required | 9/18/2008 | See Source »

...Schwartz took over the Air Force last month after Defense Secretary Robert Gates fired General Mike Moseley. Gates has clashed repeatedly with the Air Force over its mishandling of nuclear weapons, its push to buy more costly manned warplanes and its foot-dragging in sending more drones to the war zones. He and Moseley also differed over whether non-pilots should be able to operate weapons-carrying drones. Like other previous Air Force leaders, Moseley argued that only a trained pilot had the mental and moral heft to deliver bombs and missiles, or could avoid mid-air collisions with other...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Flying Air Force Drones: Pilots No Longer Required | 9/18/2008 | See Source »

...Schwartz, significantly, is the first non-fighter pilot to head the Air Force in a generation (he is a pilot, but primarily of special-operations aircraft). To meet the soaring demand for drone operators, he says fledgling pilots will be used. But the service soon will "develop an unmanned aircraft systems operator career field with specialized training potentially distinct from current manned pilot training," he said. That will come as a relief to many young pilots who have feared having their flying careers crimped by being ordered to fly drones from Nevada's Creech Air Force Base. Schwartz said...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Flying Air Force Drones: Pilots No Longer Required | 9/18/2008 | See Source »

College Events Board Vice-Chair Benjamin P. Schwartz ’10 declined to comment on the specifics of the upcoming event, saying only that the CEB was debating “a number of improvements” to the rally but that they were “confident that students will be pleased with the changes...

Author: By Aditi Balakrishna, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Girl Talk Confirmed For Pep Rally | 9/17/2008 | See Source »

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