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...Noah M. Silver ’10, a former Crimson associate editorial editor, is a history concentrator in Quincy House. His column appears on alternate Wednesdays...
Gates, tempered by his decades of seeing what U.S. intelligence could--and could not--do, is leery of the buzzwords and silver bullets that ricochet around the Pentagon. "Be modest about what military force can accomplish and what technology can accomplish," he told an audience of midcareer military and intelligence officials last fall. War is "inevitably tragic, inefficient and uncertain," he said. So is taking on the Pentagon...
Experts say it's a positive start but far from enough for an agency considered to be at the heart of restoring investor confidence in the U.S. financial system. "These are good first steps, but they aren't any silver bullet," said Bruce Carton, a former SEC enforcement officer and publisher of the securities-enforcement report the Securities Docket. "These are all bureaucratic obstacles that never should have been there in the first place. It will certainly expedite things, but it won't catch a Madoff." Real change, he said, "is all about putting more people in enforcement and training...
Against all odds, my friends and I somehow managed to land tickets to Barack Obama’s inauguration. But while our silver-section admission granted us a closer view than millions of Obama fans teeming on the National Mall, we were still in the most plebeian of ticketed areas. If we wanted the best possible spot, we were going to have to battle with 140,000 other early risers. And unbeknownst to us, we were also going to have to tolerate appalling police incompetence. And so late at night on January 19, I put on three pairs of pants...
...brag about their all-volunteer Army. That's because they tend to overlook Jeffrey Mellinger. He donned his Army uniform for the first time on April 18, 1972, about the time the Nixon Administration was seeking "peace with honor" in Vietnam and The Godfather was opening on the silver screen. Nearly 37 years later, he's still wearing Army green. Mellinger is, by all accounts, the last active-duty draftee serving in the U.S. Army...