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...Attacks like those at the World Trade Center and U.S. embassies in the Middle East and Africa suggest that terrorist threats against the nation are on the rise, according to the President. "It's probably a good idea to draw attention to the problem," says TIME Pentagon correspondent Mark Thompson. "But the timing of the announcement, in the midst of all the President's troubles, is a little bit suspicious. Moreover, the bottom line is that if a terrorist is really going to strike, there is probably little we can do to stop...
...problem for the United States, says Thompson, "is that our military has become so good at what it does that if an enemy is going to attack us, it will be probably be unconventionally. The new military buzzword these days is 'asymmetrical warfare.'" So what can the U.S. do about this threat? "The country can improve its defenses marginally," says Thompson. "It can reduce the risk and ameliorate protection a bit, but it can't eliminate the problem." As usual, there are plenty of bullets -- but none of them are magic...
RESIGNING. JOHN THOMPSON, 57, venerated longtime Georgetown University basketball coach; for personal reasons; in Washington. Under Thompson's 27-year tutelage, the Hoyas spawned Patrick Ewing, reached the NCAA tournament 20 times and won a championship...
...associate provost of the University (), Professor Thompson advises President Rudenstine on a complex and sprawling variety of academic issues connected to the tasks of the Office of the Dean. Since President Rudenstine has declared that "appointing tenured faculty and appointing deans are the two most important things I do" ("Behind the Crimson Curtain," Lingua Franca, Oct. 1998, p. 32), Professor Thompson, as a key member of the president's staff, is inextricably involved in President Rudenstine's decisions about hiring and firing deans...
Consequently, Professor Thompson's participation in my tenure review created a conflict of interest not only for his wife, the associate dean for academic affairs, but also for Jeremy Knowles, Dean of the Faculty of Arts and Sciences and all the members of Dean Knowles's staff, including former faculty Associate Dean Peter Ellison, a scholar of the biological bases of behavior and a professor in the Department of Anthropology, who assembled the ad hoc committee that advised President Rudenstine on my tenure...