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...duties," a euphemism for spying. The State Department says the pair were caught videotaping New York City landmarks and sensitive infrastructure, including a key subway tunnel. And the event may not be an isolated one. Senior federal law-enforcement sources tell TIME it's just the latest in a spate of incidents of suspected "pre-operational surveillance" by people thought to have links to Middle Eastern extremist groups...
Although a spate of Faculty of Arts and Sciences (FAS) and University-wide science initiatives—including the $300 million Broad Institute for genomics—have been launched over the last year, top administrators have concluded that the University’s two existing science campuses in Cambridge and Longwood will be insufficient to keep Harvard at the vanguard of scientific research...
...tide in these sciences may be beginning to turn already, with a spate of initiatives underway. The expansion in DEAS has been accompanied by a significant commitment to life sciences projects like the Broad Institute—to which Harvard and MIT committed $100 million apiece for research on clinical uses of the human genome—and the new Harvard Stem Cell Institute...
Summers had purchased a spate of positive publicity and a few more turns in the national media...
...upshot has been a slew of fawning national media attention, from what Summers acknowledges was a flattering New York Times Magazine profile, lauding his bold activism on campus, to puff question-and-answer pieces in Time and The Wall Street Journal, to a spate of other positive stories on the curricular review and other Summers issues...