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...this category of course, I know that it will take a great deal of resources—faculty and financial—in order to give people the time and support that it takes to make great courses to succeed,” Kirby said. “This doesn’t surprise me or worry me in the least and I would much rather make sure that we do succeed in this effort than to shortchange the creativity of the Faculty....Being excellent is not cheap...
...first airplane. On Dec. 8, 1903, Samuel Pierpont Langley, a leading government-funded scientist, launched with much fanfare his flying machine on the Potomac. It plummeted into the river. Nine days later, Orville and Wilbur Wright got the first plane off the ground. Why did these bicycle mechanics succeed when a famous scientist failed? Because Langley hired other people to execute his concept. Studying the Wrights' diaries, you see that insight and execution are inextricably woven together. Over years, as they solved problems like wing shape and wing warping, each adjustment involved a small spark of insight that...
Meanwhile, there are efforts within the government to identify leakers. The Justice Department is investigating who gave away the NSA secrets. While such probes rarely succeed, the department's new willingness to subpoen a reporters and their records could change that. And the CIA has a group of mostly retired officers on contract to read news stories that contain classified material and try to uncover their sources. This may be the toughest spook work. Over the years, the unit, nicknamed "the leak chasers" by some agency hands, has been able to finger only a few talkers...
...runoff presidential vote pits Socialist Michelle Bachelet Jeria against center-right senator Sebasti?n Pi?era Eche?ique. While Bachelet has been the favorite for months to succeed Socialist president Ricardo Lagos Escobar-taking nearly 46% of the first round vote versus the 25% garnered by second-place Pi?era-she has to avoid moving too far to the left in the remaining days of the campaign so as not to alienate the country's large bloc of centrist voters. Bachelet, a physician who would become Chile's first woman president, is unlikely to mess with Chile's good diplomatic and economic ties with...
...Palestinian political class fears that the Sharon's departure will not freeze, but will actually kill any hopes for progress toward a peace agreement in the near future. None of the Israeli leaders who could succeed Sharon would have the courage and initiative to take the steps that Sharon has taken, to say "we have to create a Palestinian state" and then set about making that happen. Sharon wasn't popular among the Palestinians, but his leadership is well respected. Sharon promised things that other Israelis did not promise...