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...yesterday afternoon. International Economics Professor Richard N. Cooper said he was surprised by the extent of the damage wrought by the sub-prime mortgage crisis. “I don’t know of anyone who foresaw the ramifications of the sub-prime crisis through the whole economic system,” he said. “At least until last July, I thought that we could avoid a recession in the United States. All that is gone now.” Robert Z. Lawrence, a professor of international trade and investment at the Harvard Kennedy School, emphasized...
...sentiment that is going to be felt by most of the blacks in this city.” Fantini, who has served on the committee for 12 terms, said he thought Turk deserved to be superintendent. “The staff and the teachers in the school system will be totally demoralized,” he said. None of the other committee members could be reached for comment after last night’s vote. —Staff writer Sofia E. Groopman can be reached at segroopm@fas.harvard.edu. —Staff writer Michelle L. Quach can be reached...
...SportsOneSource, a research firm that tracks the sporting-goods industry, firearms sales in large retail outlets are up 39% this year. Shops across the country are reporting ammunition shortages because stores can't meet demand for bullets. Data from the FBI's National Instant Criminal Background Check System, which the industry uses as a proxy for overall firearms sales, are also revealing. From November 2008 through March 2009, FBI background checks, which are required every time a federally licensed gun dealer makes a sale, rose 29.3% over the same period a year earlier. In November alone, checks jumped...
...Intellipedia's godfather is CIA analyst D. Calvin Andrus, who wrote a paper in 2004 titled "The Wiki and the Blog: Toward a Complex Adaptive Intelligence Community." For decades, the U.S. intelligence system had been structured to answer static Cold War-era questions, like how many missiles there are in Siberia. What the U.S. needed after Sept. 11, Andrus argued, was something that could handle rapidly changing, complicated threats. Intelligence organizations needed to become complex and adaptive, driven to judgments by bottom-up collaboration, like financial markets or ant colonies - or Wikipedia. (See the top 10 Secret Service code names...
...biggest hurdles was convincing security-minded spies that the system would be safe from outsiders. To assuage them, Intellipedia was built into the existing secure and classified networks known as Intelink, which connects the 16 spy agencies in the U.S. as well as the U.S. military, the Department of State and other agencies with access to intelligence...