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Inside the Nerve Center Despite such successes, the data has serious limitations, which become evident the moment one steps into Interpol's command center. One morning in January, Javier Sánchez, an Interpol operational assistant from Barcelona, sat hunched over a computer in the Lyons office, attempting to find a man who had traveled across three continents on stolen documents, and then vanished in São Paolo. Two days earlier, Mexican officials had spotted his stolen Portuguese passport on Interpol's list when he flew into Mexico City from Frankfurt. They deported him back to Germany, where...
Thatcher's choice of a successor for Carrington reflected her own weakened position within the Conservative Party as a result of the Falklands invasion. He was Francis Pym, 60, the man considered to be Thatcher's most serious rival for the party's leadership and a critic, however cautious, of her stringent economic policies. Wealthy, Eton- and Cambridge-educated and a descendant of the famed Puritan leader of the House of Commons during the 17th century English civil war, Pym had hoped for the Foreign Secretary post after the Conservative election victory of May 1979. Instead he became Defense Secretary...
British strategy was designed to use a carefully calculated mixture of both. High government officials were sure that the Argentines would never withdraw their invasion force from the Falklands unless they were convinced that Britain was deadly serious about military retaliation. Accordingly, the government deliberately harshened its rhetoric, while using every other means at its disposal to bring diplomatic pressure on Argentina. Pym set the tone. "Britain does not appease dictators,' he told a solemn House of Commons. Pale and grave, Thatcher answered further opposition cries for her resignation with the tart retort: "No. Now is the time for strength...
...race scholar. Brandon M. Terry ’05, a former Black Men’s Forum president and moderator of last night’s panel, said that hip hop should not be disregarded by scholars because of its cultural significance for African Americans. “Any serious historical study of black politics and culture will note that the two will spill into each other,” he said. “Culture will influence the way blacks do politics.” However, not everyone in attendance shared Terry’s views. Tricia Rose...
...cross-register with MIT’s accounting program each year, and the numbers speak for themselves. The mass appeal of the business world is evident, but things have gone too far. The mounting pressure to secure a summer job on Wall Street even before junior year represents a serious problem...