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...Among some congressional hawks, anxieties run high about the apparent timidity of the American strategy: too few troops, too much dependence on the Northern Alliance, precision bombing that's too precise to scare the Taliban but not precise enough to spare civilians. Behind closed doors-and always out of the President's earshot-some of these complaints have reached the Administration. "War is a miserable business," says Arizona Senator John McCain. "Let's get on with it." Fissures in the international coalition are becoming visible, with Europeans encountering more hostile public opinion. In Britain support for the war has slipped...
...Boston waterfront and, of course, Harvard Square, where the most recent addition to their oeuvre is located. In addition to the sculpture, “Nest!” also features a live element, including performances and poetry readings by such artists as the Bread and Jams and the Spare Change Poets...
...Britain: Spare us the disclaimer...
...serves on the boards of four public tech companies, including Check Point Software, an Israel-based Nasdaq firm that makes security software, and advises four venture capital funds. That's in his spare time. Vieux's main job is running DASAR, which he formed to connect entrepreneurs with venture capitalists and the heads of large tech companies...
...stuff of contemporary legends: His studies of the auroras, his creation of a cannon which could fire a hundred kilometers and his travels to exotic locales like Egypt, Russia and Japan helped propel him to the forefront of European science at the end of the Edwardian age. In his spare time, he even found a financially viable procedure to extract nitrogen from the air for use in fertilizer. He eventually presented a theory—proven years after his lonely death—that the origin of the beautiful waves of the borealis were rooted in the Earth?...