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...able to defend against. The DOE's DBT is classified, but experts inside and outside the government say it requires guards to defeat a 9/11-size force. While DOE sites are more sensitive than private ones, since they house nuclear weapons and their key components, the impact of a terrorist strike on either could be devastating. "The NRC, charged with the very same responsibility [as the DOE] of protecting nuclear facilities against terrorist attack, has fallen down on the job," Markey told TIME...
...mock attack against a DOE facility in 2003, Wackenhut "attackers" tipped off Wackenhut guards about the particulars of the drill. Under the new rules, NRC referees are supposed to pay close attention to ensure that Wackenhut's fake attackers aren't holding back when they launch a mock strike against a plant Wackenhut workers are defending. "It's going to be pretty obvious if the adversary force is taking it easy," says Richard Michau, president of Wackenhut's nuclear-services division. The NRC's Diaz says hiring Wackenhut was necessary to get a beefed-up fake-attack force...
...further incentivized the departure of its fund managers by supporting those who strike out on their own: roughly a quarter of the current endowment is invested by outside managers who “spun out?...
...when the Allston campus was in its earliest planning stages, when the Faculty voted lack of confidence in its own president. We studied at Harvard during a time when marriage between gay and lesbian partners became legal in Massachusetts, when the U.S. invaded Iraq in a so-called preemptive strike, when George W. Bush was reelected in one of the most contested and contentious presidential elections to date. And of course we studied during the time when the Twin Towers were toppled and an incomprehensible number of people perished...
...would expect a candidate in her field to have published considerably more than she has published so far. What Penn has done might be called a preemptive strike, and I applaud them for their cleverness, but we have very vigorous standards for promotion from within, and a crucial aspect of those standards is a candidate’s record,” Gates says...