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...released this week. Many of the panel's findings will remain secret; Administration officials refused to declassify large portions of the 900-page report. The public version will conclude that U.S. officials could not have prevented the tragedy, but it will criticize government agencies for being asleep at the switch during the two years before the attacks. The FBI failed to notice that terrorists were taking flying lessons and English classes in the U.S. and to deduce their intent; overseas, the CIA failed to penetrate a secret army, numbering in the thousands, that was silently massing in Afghanistan and elsewhere...
...refer to anything, from Dirty Harry to A Star Is Born, with casual aptness. And he knows how to refresh action-movie cliches without undue strain. Give this guy a script to direct instead of a structure to fill in, and he could get really good. Meantime, if you switch all critical faculties to the OFF position, you might have a nice night with Angels. Whether you'll respect it the next morning is another matter...
...He’s a person who speaks to thinking people both inside the academy and well beyond its walls,” Buell said, linking this switch-hitting to a Harvard tradition. “Harvard is a place where many faculty, not all but many, find themselves speaking to wider publics because of the centrality of the place. Menand already does that...
...switch to a non-consecutive 49 day lay over will allow for more maneuverability, on the coaching staff’s side, for giving athletes days off,” he said...
...address what would happen to the guards absent their positions. And Marilyn D. Touborg, director of communications for Harvard’s Office of Human Resources, declined to comment on whether security guards that opt to continue at the University will be forced to switch jobs...