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...than electronic surveillance vacuumed up by the Americans (it was, after all, their turf), then shared with London. The most remarkable thing about the flap might have been its timing; it was one of three sightings in a week of the secret corps of covert operators who try to steer world affairs from the engine room as diplomats and politicians talk on the bridge. In Qatar, two Russian security agents lost their cloak of invisibility when they were charged with helping to assassinate Zelimkhan Yandarbiyev, a former Chechen President with alleged links to al-Qaeda. The Russian Foreign Minister, Igor...
...investors can be seduced into producing export-quality films from home. And to make sure everyone outside the country knows about these films, France's film-export organization Unifrance is turning attention away from Japan and the U.S. to home in on Europe. Italy is also trying to steer its industry toward the European marketplace, with a new law that reduces the role of state subsidies, putting more responsibility into the hands of private financiers. In the '60s and '70s, Italy was turning out some of the most acclaimed filmmakers of the century: think Bertolucci (whose latest, The Dreamers...
...huge surge of interest produced by the dot-com bubble and feared Y2K disaster—two subjects he says Harvard professors were careful to steer clear of—has already subsided. In 2002, the last year he taught, Zittrain estimates his course had fallen back to a respectable 80 students...
...least three academics from outside Harvard have been considered for the new Faculty deanship to steer the administration of the life sciences, according to speculation among biology professors...
...whole, your generation has far more trouble than we did with money. Money ambition veers you away from your ideals and can steer you toward professions in service of the elite. Money inequality drives a wedge between students who have cash pouring in from their families and others who don’t. The money culture—that inclination to reward anything based on a “market” (whether real, illusory or corrupt)—is corroding the values of too many fine institutions. Including Harvard...