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...each,” said McConnell, who became the second director of national intelligence in 2007. “The likelihood of nuclear attack is less but is not eliminated.” Cyberterrorism is yet another rising danger, McConnell said. “The cyber threat is the soft underbelly of the United States,” McConnell said. “The United States depends on the cyber infrastructure more than any other on Earth.” He said that the American financial system is especially vulnerable to a type of cyber-terrorism he referred...
...vicious campaign tactics Chambliss is famous for." Chambliss, for his part, has a reputation for merciless politicking. He rose to power in 2002 by playing on voters' post-9/11 fears, declaring that Democratic incumbent Max Cleland, a triple amputee and Vietnam veteran, would be soft on Osama bin Laden...
...strike in Pakistan," says Dipankar Banerjee, director of the Delhi-based Institute for Peace and Conflict Studies. While few think India will take such provocative action, the ruling Congress Party is facing intense domestic pressure from opposition parties that, as elections loom, have labeled Singh's administration as soft on terrorism. "The Congress Party has to be seen as strong. The country's asking for it," says Banerjee...
...Willem Buiter, a political-economy professor at the London School of Economics, says that although the infusion of capital and soft loans in the financial sector "violates the letter and spirit" of standing E.U. laws on competition, European officials are turning a collective blind eye because of the credit crisis. Still, Buiter counsels Europe against matching any eventual bailout of the Big Three with aid to its own automakers. "If the Americans want to extend the life of the dinosaurs at public expense, they are free to do that," he says. "But if I see someone else jump...
...second to the number of celebrities clad in his designs is the number of ways Nigo has managed to diversify his admittedly sparse collection of T's, sneakers and camouflage hoodies. Through some preternaturally savvy marketing, he's made a niche for himself co-branding products with everyone from soft-drink manufacturers to condom makers. He's an equal-opportunity opportunist, too: A BATHING APE logos have graced both Microsoft's X-Box and Nintendo's DS video game handset; his clothes feature characters from both Marvel and D.C. comics...